Comments on: The New Delphi Product Page

By: Bob Swart

Bob Swart — Fri, 23 May 2008 06:02:55 +0000

The link to my blog (thanks) points to www.drbob42.com, but that’s just my general English homepage to the website. My blog is located at http://www.bobswart.nl/blog
With main RSS feed at http://www.bobswart.nl/Weblog/RSS/Weblog.xml

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By: Thomas Pfister

Thomas Pfister — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:59:21 +0000

Hi Nick,
congrat to you, JohnK and the other team-members for the great work. Looks more like "2008" then the old web site.

By: GN

GN — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:37:11 +0000

In Opera (9.27) www.codegear.com works very badly
Please, correct it.

By: GN

GN — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:03:24 +0000

In Opera http://www.codegear.com works very badly
Please, correct it.

By: Guenstig

Guenstig — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:50:32 +0000

I have also probs with my firefox-browser. Hmmm. Dont know why!

By: Bo Chen

Bo Chen — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:38:52 +0000

I can not open http://www.codegear.com/solutions/software-archeology with Firefox Firefox/2.0.0.11. It shows me the html source code first and then the connection was reset.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:47:24 +0000

ref. What’s new since D7: class operator aren’t supported in Delphi Win32.

By: Nico

Nico — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:16:30 +0000

Both pages never end to load here. Maybe there is some image or counter or something included that’s served by a slower server and the result is not pretty, with the hourglass cursor.

Another little detail is the width. I’m browsing at 1024 with the laptop. The horizontal scroll bars appear for both pages (main and Delphi) though it’s possible to prevent for the Delphi page reducing the font size.

The image of "breaking news" in the main page doesn’t show.

I like the Delphi page. But the main page seems cluttered and not too beautiful.

By: Nick Hodges

Nick Hodges — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:25:09 +0000

Lance —

Unfortunately, we don’t have a central repository of User Group information. Do you know of one?

Nick

By: Lance Rasmussen

Lance Rasmussen — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:23:58 +0000

On the resource page… Looks great. Maybee add user groups as a resource?

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:09:46 +0000

I love the new website, it has more info, looks fresh and well designed.
Speaking of web design, do you think Delphi will support Silverlight technology?
I believe if Delphi takes that step and support Silverlight it will
gain a new market share, new users and show that it welling to
evolve.

I think Silverlight is a very important new technology and Delphi
should seriously consider supporting it

By: DelphiUser

DelphiUser — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:30:39 +0000

Believe it or not, PNG crashes some older operating systems. Crashes, in the sense of having to reboot your machine!

By: Jan Derk

Jan Derk — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:44:06 +0000

It is much better, but you guys really need a hire a professional for the graphics. They look amateurish. Check out your main screenshot:

http://www.codegear.com/article/34204/images/34204/02000003.jpg

It is full of artifacts. Mostly caused by the fact that it is a low quality JPEG. Application screenshots need to be lossless png these days. Plus most screenshots on the features pages are made on Windows XP. If you want Delphi to look like modern tool make your screenshots on Vista.

By: DerekSmith

DerekSmith — Thu, 15 May 2008 07:17:52 +0000

Excellent initiative, especially the Drill Down feature.

I tried it but at present it does not seem to drill down very far, in fact it seems quite flat.

VCL Components for example is flat and I was expecting to be able to drill down from a group to a component to aspects of that component etc.

Is it just early days? I hope so because this resource has huge potential.

DerekSmith

By: Scott Woods

Scott Woods — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:52:10 +0000

I am glad to see screen captures (in HTML) instead of PDF documents. I always hated the PDF brochures on the web.

By: Cesar Romero

Cesar Romero — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:14:26 +0000

The feature matrix is awesome.

All new site is now more compreensive, new comers and who is using old versions can clearly see why them should use Delphi/Rad Studio 2007.

Keep improving.

By: C Johnson

C Johnson — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:17:53 +0000

Noticed the new website, found it less garish (the old one hurt my eyes!), but a touch too "Borland" - in light of the sale, I find I can take that last fact with a large grain of salt!

The new delphi info page isn’t too bad. I would move the feature matrix to full button status with Trial and Buy - when it comes to upgrading, that is the information I am after right after the trial version. I think others might agree if you ask them.

The feature matrix could probably benefit from some ajax - fold up the images by default, and only load it when someone unfolds them. It would make the page load faster to be sure. Oh, and you could have it as a single page instead of an index page that seems to lead to a single page that has everything on it (seems kinda klunky that way)

The feature drill down is the right idea, but it definitely feels like it could use more polish. Esp. from a company that creates ajax and php tools.

By: cjern

cjern — Thu, 15 May 2008 01:42:18 +0000

Awesome. Great job!