Hei Christian, > 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.
No no no, that easily you don't get me. ;-) You tell me you don't want to do an extra click to go to an "advanced download", while you are fine with having to do that extra click by default? > 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. Not my style of argument, either. See...there's getting the message out there, and there's meeting the users aim to download the software. Trying to get your marketing messages through at the cost of the easy of getting the product to the user is not only similar to opening popup windows, but also especially contra-productive because getting the thing out there is difficult enough for us (the 100MB issue). > 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)... See the rest of the discussion with Maarten. > 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. q.e.d.? Neither did i say my script is a perfect implementation (in fact it's a rather bad implementation), nor did i say it wouldn't be easy to proove a point that it doesn't always work. I'd be interested, though, in how you managed to get that response. What browser is it, is Java enabled in the browser, what are the local settings in the browser? Thanks, André.
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