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

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Sat Aug 13 20:31:05 EDT 2011

Four minutes ago, Stephen Bloch wrote:
> 
> On Aug 13, 2011, at 7:52 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> 
> > 10 minutes ago, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote:
> >> Yes, but the grey means I'm unlikely to move my cursor over it in
> >> the first place.  Why grey it out at all?
> >
> > Because this whole thread started with someone who was confused by the
> > existence of this selection.
> 
> No, I think it was someone who was confused by the absence of an  
> easy, almost-certainly-correct default.

"They [...] were presented 5 different options for downloading
DrRacket for Mac".


> I agree with the suggestion that the button text should say which
> version it thinks is correct, so you can tell immediately if it's
> wrong.  If the user selects something different in the combo box,
> the button text should change to match it.

It will be too long, see earlier reply.

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