[Webteam] Welcome section of Front Page prior to 14Jan2007

[Brad Fuller]

goran at krampe.se wrote:
> Hi Brad and all!
> 
> Sorry I haven't been able to participate in all this - been ill, and
> Maya too (light phneumonia) so I have been mostly offline.
> 
> Brad Fuller <brad at sonaural.com> wrote:
>> <h1>Welcome!</h1>
> [SNIP]
> 
> I wrote that text and the intent was to make it "packed" with Good Info,
> still quite short and mainly attract developers, typically from other
> similar camps like Python etc. At the time there were lots of voices
> about what to include on the front page (like a reference to Seaside for
> example) and so on.

Yes, I think it is packed with great info and we should use it. 
Hopefully someone will step up and extend the About page with your text.

Thanks


> 
> Btw, I noticed (in current About) there is a problem with this line
> (there should be "with" in there):

I've fixed the following.

> 
> 	"a simple yet efficient incremental garbage collector for 32-bit direct
> pointers efficient bulk-mutation of objects"
> 
> ...also the previous line that says:
> 
> 	"it runs bit-identical on many platforms (Windows, Mac, Unix, and
> others)"
> 
> ...doesn't play well with the text before it "Other noteworthy aspects
> of Squeak include". An alternative would be:
> 
> 	"bit-identical execution on many platforms (Windows, Mac, Unix, and
> others)"
> 

<snip>

> 
> Mmm, other details on that page:
> 
> 	Squeak can be used for Web Application Development.  <- no period
> 	"every thing" should be "everything"
>