About a minute ago, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > Eli, I must say I appreciate some of your concerns but some > I don't comprehend. > > (1) My hunch is that most of our downloaders -- especially > technically unsavy (what's the right word here?) people -- > download one and only one thing from us.
Yes. > (2) We need to accommodate them mostly, not the people who > understand language packages. Right -- which is why I suggest no additional verbiage. Just a more emphasized "download" button. > (3) If it works for FF/Mozilla, why should it not work for us? > Could we write a program that 'steals and adapts' their dowmload > code on a regular base and thus keeps ours uptodate for the next > N years? Not really. The thing is that our code does more -- it does the sorting that I talked about (so when you do get to click the platform combo box, you'll see the more relevant choices at the beginning). I'll do something rough in a minute and will post when it's up. Ideally, there would be some random JS library that could be included that would give a precise guess, but that can't work in general because of some of the problems I mentioned earlier (like Windows x86_64 users who want to get the 32 bit version). I didn't see anything close to what we need for that at the time, so we have the current code. (And that code *is* based on the mozilla code that does the guessing, but tweaked to make that sorting possible.) (Again, I think that just a more obvious download button would do most of the work. The exact guess is needed only to eliminate the combo box completely.) -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev