Hi André, *, On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 01:25:58PM +1000, André Wyrwa wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 00:12 +0100, :murb: [maarten brouwers] wrote: > [...] > Since it seems that the download page in its current and that proposed > form requires JavaScript anyways, why not use JavaScript to detect the > conditions of the target environment
I'm not a fan of automatic detection. Actually I'm kind of annoyed when I have to constantly switch to an "advanced" page (or even worse: look at the page-source) only because I'm looking for another OS that I'm currently using. > and offer one tailored default > download with an option for "other downloads" in the fashion that > firefox does it or in the fashion that i implemented on > http://marketing.openoffice.org/tryouts/Why.OpenOffice.org/en/download.htm ? See above. And I think OOo should be proud of the various platforms it runs. It should not hide the fact that you can run it on every major OS. Having a listbox-style selection (we had that in the past), is that people were complaining that the controls were to complicated. But that aside, the problem with offering the other NL-versions from that page is, that not all NL-versions get their "Go" at the same time, are not available from the main-mirrors at the same time. So you could get the 2.2.0 english, but when you use the spanish link, you get 2.1.0 (or a broken link)... > [...] > To clarify: > It is well possible to check via JavaScript for: > * operating system > * operating system language > * presence of Java runtime (in the browser) > > These are all implemented on the above link. And obviously it fails. Since it offers me a Windows with JRE download of the english version, but I'm running linux and have JRE installed (two JDKs actually) and am using a german locale. q.e.d. > [...] ciao Christian -- NP: Kid Rock - Black Chick, White Guy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
