[racket-dev] Downloading DrRacket for Mac is hard?

Yes, my sentiments exactly.

Robby

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Matthias Felleisen
<matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
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> I am happy to see that we are looking for solutions to a problem.
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> I think we should use everything we can to make the best possible guess. Then we should use English language to inform people that we made a best possible guess and that there are alternatives. But this language must be extremely non-scary to BEGINNERS.
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> On Aug 11, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Robby Findler wrote:
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>> I think that maybe, given this particular choice, it makes more sense
>> to say, on the web page, "We believe you are on a mac; the 32bit
>> version is the one you want, unless you're sure you want the 64bit
>> version, which is here. other versions there" which a touch of good
>> design and better wording, I think that would be better than relying
>> on adobe not doing software development.
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>> Robby
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>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Guillaume Marceau <gmarceau at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Robby Findler
>>> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
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>>>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Guillaume Marceau <gmarceau at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> In the ambiguous cases, you can get additional information by checking for
>>>>> flash. Because Adobe doesn't support flash player on x64 browsers, if
>>>>> detection is successful then it is definitely a 32 bit browser, if not, then
>>>>> the request came from either a 32 bit browser without flash plugin or from a
>>>>> 64 bit browser.
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>>>> That seems like an unfortunate thing to rely on.
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>>> Such is life in the stormy world of web development. Just ask Danny
>>> about the ridiculous things he has to do to make WeScheme work on the
>>> different browsers.
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