[racket-dev] Revising Racket's home page

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 19 18:33:02 EDT 2013

I get a "Go to the Choose page to select fonts" page.

But reloading the draft Racket page (should have tried that in the
first place) seems to have fixed the problem.

At Mon, 19 Aug 2013 18:26:23 -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> > Fantastic!
> >
> > The non-code font shows up rasterized on my phone (iPhone 4s running
> > iOS 5.1.1), while the code font looks fine. Both fonts look right on my
> > mini-tablet (Nexus 7).
> 
> That's very odd. Both fonts are loaded from Google fonts, so they
> should either both work or not.
> 
> What do you see here:
> http://www.google.com/fonts/#QuickUsePlace:quickUse/Family:
> 
> >
> > At Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:39:54 -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> >> Recently I (with assistance from Asumu) have spent some time drafting
> >> a revised home page for Racket. A revised web page will nicely
> >> complement the big upcoming release, I hope.  You can see the draft
> >> here, which is ready for people to try out:
> >>
> >>   http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/samth/new-web/
> >>
> >> Some things to try out out: clicking the right and left arrows,
> >> clicking the "?" box, visiting the RacketCon page.
> >>
> >> The new page addresses a few problems that I see with our current page:
> >>
> >> 1. It works well on small devices, which our current page doesn't.
> >> Try it out on a phone or a tablet.
> >> 2. It reduces the size of the top header, which will lighten the
> >> burden on the documentation pages, for example, or the pkg index if we
> >> add the header there.
> >> 3. It puts more info on the first page.  This means that people are
> >> more likely to see information about how to contribute to Racket or
> >> approaches to learning programming using our tools.
> >> 4. The font size is larger, which I think makes it much more readable.
> >>
> >> Perhaps more controversially, I adapted some prose about Racket from
> >> Matthias' "Racket is ..." post, and added a tag line at the top.
> >>
> >> Lots of work is still needed if we want to use this as the basis for
> >> Racket's web page (it's written in raw HTML, other pages would need
> >> work, etc), but I hope that people like it enough to continue pursuing
> >> this.
> >>
> >> Sam
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