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(Nitpick for the CAPTCHA substitute: While a good human-verifier, do note that ‘add’ can also mean “Append the text characters ‘2’ and ‘3’ as ‘23’” to some people. Even math majors…my excuse is I also did computer science, overloading the verb. “Subtract” would be a bit less ambiguous for us fringe-cases.)

@Joseph Frantz: There is a compromise between a fixed-width page and one that accounts for text-zooming users: Fixing the page width in ems will allow graceful zooming (save the banner).

The “Floating in space” page design is too useful to do away with. It allows a designer to keep line length easily readable; removes the obligation of filling extra space with extra fluff any more advanced than light gradients; and also allows a graceful solution for the footer-at-bottom-of-screen-vs.-window problem that IE6 (and the W3C, to a certain, vertically-ignorant extent) present designers. I have yet to see a solution tying a footer to a browser that works in IE6 and allows dynamically growing content in the page, account for redraws - add a six-inch block to some pages with these footers, and whoops! just blew through the careful positioning, giving a paragraph a bandana.

Matt, you deserve a pat on the back for the redesign of the download page. It is so much more user-friendly now that there isn’t a big list of tiny-type URLs to large files. It’s pleasantly interactive now. Good work on the rest of the site, too.

—Alex