Rename sloppy "Install .exe"

Mike Parker aldacron at gmail.com
Thu Sep 6 05:47:56 UTC 2018


On Thursday, 6 September 2018 at 05:07:16 UTC, Bauss wrote:
> On Thursday, 6 September 2018 at 01:25:51 UTC, 0xEAB wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 4 September 2018 at 16:59:38 UTC, Tourist wrote:
>>> The "Install .exe" on the main page looks sloppy to me. My 
>>> brain wants to read it as "Install.exe" and wonders why 
>>> there's a space before the dot.
>>
>>
>> Well, if one visits the site sending a GNU/Linux user-agent, 
>> there will be those two buttons instead:
>>
>>  - Install .deb
>>  - Install .rpm
>>
>> And that's why it shows "Install .exe" on for Windows users.
>
> Still better as Installation Executable or at the very least no 
> space.

I did a quick dig through Chrome Dev Tools and found the button 
text is generated in a javascript file. Easy enough to change:

https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/2464

I'll check back on it later when the tests have finished to make 
sure it rendered properly.


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