[racket-dev] Revising Racket's home page

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> Just now, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
>> > And a major bug (chrome, now on linux): resizing the browser doesn't
>> > reposition the text in the middle.
>>
>> Can you be more specific, perhaps with a screenshot?  I just tried
>> this with Chromium on Linux and it repositioned just fine.
>
> *sigh*; put this under senility...  I have a sophisticated setup of
> three workspaces x four screen, with a vnc viewer using the same
> configuration, and I was using the wrong meta keys so I resized the
> vnc viewer window instead of the browser window...
>
> But there are still problems with resizing down to the point where it
> switches a display mode:
>
> * The "noise" background image is still at the previous place which is
>   now completely bogus.

I don't understand what's wrong with the background image.  The
problem with the headings is known.

> * The "<" ">" arrows look very bad when shown vertically (would be
>   really nice if they can switch to vertical arrows instead...)

Yes, that would be better, but it's not easy.

> * The book images are huge compared to the text.
>
> * The RoR book is smaller than the others -- it's actually at a level
>   that it can stay next to the text, so I think that the others should
>   be at the same size.

I actually think the large images might work better on a small screen,
but I'm unsure.

Sam