Re: Epiphany homepage

[Matthew Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On 9 Feb, 2005, at 10:39 AM, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> ...
> I've added a short paragraph about what Epiphany offers above 
> Mozilla/Firefox under the Features heading.

A good start, but it's still "below the fold" (i.e requires scrolling 
to see it with many browser configurations).

> The current preview page is 
> http://www.cs.vu.nl/~reinout/epiphany.xhtml now (since Adam converted 
> it to XHTML, I even had to edit .htaccess to get Apache to serve the 
> right mime type..)

Does that mean Internet Explorer users can't read it? (If so, does that 
matter?)

> > faster than Firefox (it is, right?), show that in a couple of pretty 
> > and uncluttered graphs.
>
> Nice, but how do you time the drawing time of menus and such? Or are 
> you just talking about startup time?

The things people will care about *graphs* for are startup time and 
page loading time -- the things that take entire seconds. Stuff like 
menus and windows can be handled with text, for example: "Unlike 
Firefox, Epiphany stays responsive even while drawing complicated 
pages."

> > Make obvious, decent-sized (but cropped) screenshots of the killer 
> > features that should make people want to switch from Firefox. (There 
> > aren't any? Then
>
> Yes, the icons on the current page should be replaced by nice 
> screenshots, I'm just waiting for anyone to Gimp them up.

Hmmm, none of the images are displaying in my copy of Firefox. (They 
work fine in Safari.) Is this deliberate? :-)

> > Copywriting available on request.
>
> I'll keep that in mind. :-)
> ...

Particularly cringeworthy text on the current version includes "aims 
to", "transparent browsing experience", "needless to say", "you might 
be able to get it" (!!!), and "browser functionality".

--
Matthew Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/