10 minutes ago, Matthew Flatt wrote: > I'd like to renew the suggestion that Guillaume works out a concrete > plan and we take it from there.
I'll be happy for a better layout. (Just as long as it's not a search+replace of the FF download...) And something else that I forgot to mention: the question of reducing the number of clicks, which is desirable too. The main issue there is getting the same content that is currently on the download page to appear on the front page: * The version number & release date * The platform combo box (needed because of the previously mentioned issues) * The four links at the bottom of the download page Also: it needs to work when there's no JS. Currently, this is done by listing all the platform installers in a list -- not pretty, but this is an exceptional case. (To see it, disable JS and go to the download page.) Another way to cut the number of links is to merge the mirror list into the download page. The best I could think of is another combo box, but that doesn't seem like a good idea if we want to encourage using mirrors. Ideally, there would be a way to detect the closest mirror, but I don't know of a good way to do it... One option is a geoip database that could be used in JS (but all I found was expensive stuff), and another option is to find some known distribution network that does this kind of thing by itself (but again, all I found were things that are very ad-intense). Of course, it'll be even better if both of the above happens, so you get the nice single-click thing that gets you the default-platform and nearest-download. -- ((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