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

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 12 20:55:20 EDT 2011

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk at cs.brown.edu> wrote:
>> (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.
>
> And I suspect this is precisely why FF makes Windows the default (as
> Guillaume has shown us).  Everyone who's not on Windows is acutely
> conscious of the fact that they are not, and knows what to do about
> it.

When I go to download firefox (under both windows and mac os x) I
don't have to make any choices. The big friendly button is exactly the
one I want and it starts downloading right away. (I'm not suggesting
we drop the mirrors entry.)

Robby



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