Hi Clytie and all,
I think he means the button at the invitation to contribute page... the
actual download of the installation files is started by clicking that
button. I think we could easily turn this button in to a normal
hyperlink bit formatted like a button (which is also the 'trick' we used
at the homepage). I think real buttons (as in buttons created using
<input type="button" ... />) should only be used for submitting form
data... and nothing else. Hyperlinks offer greater flexibility.
And the mimetype... he might have been unlucky with the configuration of
the randomly chosen download server I guess (or actually had a bad
mimetype configuration himself...)? I never had problems myself
with it... but that's maybe something Christian knows more about...
g.,
Maarten
Clytie Siddall wrote:
On 15/01/2007, at 10:28 PM, Clytie Siddall wrote:
On 15/01/2007, at 3:51 AM, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
Fyi,
Louis
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From: "Damon Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 9 Jan 2007 10:42:26 PM EST (CA)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [webmasters] Download button
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Dear Sir or Madam,
when I want to download OpenOffice, with the new site I have to
click a button. Unfortunately if the end-user's web browser knows
the mime-type it will open the file in the browser (and not
download it), as it just did in my Opera install. Because it is a
button and not a link I can not right click the button and choose
download.
Damon Anderson, Business Director
Corigo Vietnam
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Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/ mail/
Meanwhile, I've written to him and pointed him to the vi project's
downloads page, which has only links. Whether he's after
OpenOffice.org in Vietnamese or English, there are links to them on
our page, and you don't need to read Vietnamese to pick out the right
link from the table. ;)
I hope he was looking for OpenOffice.org 2.1 Việt. :D
I heard back from this user (who manages a number of people who will
use our translation :)) ). He also had a query about the security
issue, which I've taken to the QA list.
But on the original topic: if he's talking about the green "get
OpenOffice.org version 2.1" shown on http://openoffice.org, in my
browser (OmniWeb 5.2.2 [1]), right-clicking on that button shows the
image options, but it also still shows the file options (Download link
to chosen folder for this site, Download link as..., Copy location,
Add link to Bookmarks) and the Page submenu with all its options.
Do any mainstream browsers _not_ show the download options when right-
clicking on an image which is also a link? I would have thought not. :S
I just checked Camino (Download Link Target) and Safari (Download
Linked File), so all the OSX browsers support this.
from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN
[1] Mac OSX only: lots of cool tools
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Maarten Brouwers (murb)
http://www.murb.nl
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