Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
Hi
As prior discussions suggested.... I removed the cdrom/bittorrent link
from homepage. I too had seen it as a little confusing but then I also
wanted people to use BitTorrents. However, we need now to update the
Download page.
Would it be possible to use the same code as for the other button's,
this should make the button look nice again (in style with the other
buttons) :) (yes I'm nitpicking)
<a class="button" id="buttondownload" name="buttondownload"
href="http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.1/index.html";><span>Download<br/>OpenOffice.org
2.0.1</span></a>
I think the only limit should be: make it look good and make it user-
& server-efficient :-)
Let's say finish this by second week of January?
I'm short on time lately, but I can free some time in the first few
weeks of January if no-one else is applying.
I would btw think of that as one of a set of other possible upgrades the
download page might need. Maybe we could address them all in one? [Do I
hear some of you thinking "no not him again!"? :D]
One issue I still have with the download page is its lack of true
support for the native language editions.
The thinking I had about it:
Javascripting also the server addresses of the native language versions
is a nogo, since it's too complex to keep it up to date with all local
versions, which are not updated at the same time, and not available on
all servers the english version is available on.
Since we lack serverside scripting capabilities to address this (or the
knowledge): to make it as fluently as possible all native languages need
to create their own download page similar to the one deployed on
download.openoffice.org, in a way that the end user will only notice the
slight address change and language change (the www would become the
particular language code), but with similar markup as the download page,
and without the message in between telling the user is already starting
download (which only applies to the english users). This would however
not address the dropdown problem, which is no longer a problem with the
second option.
Another option would be removing the drop down for the native language,
since it implies the not what is happening at the moment. The set of
dropdowns tell me I'm allowed to change operating system settings and
then change language settings, while setting the operating turns out to
be useless when changing from the default language. Maybe a better
option would be just have a big box saying download OpenOffice.org in
your local language. This would be simple to implement, and could well
be part of the intended update in january (though it might need more
discussion, which consumes often most of the time :s)
Another slight improvement of the download page could be greying out the
other options (besides the language selector), as e.g. done on the
bittorrent download page, untill a language selection is being made, but
this could create some problems with the english users...
Maybe updating more than one thing would take too long (as all changes
need discussion), but it saves effort in the somewhat longer run.
g.,
Maarten
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