RJ Gilson wrote:
Kay, Christian, Everyone,
--- Kay Schenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
hmmm....
Christian Lohmaier wrote:
Hi *,
On Nov 24, 2007 6:07 PM, :murb: [maarten brouwers] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, the resolution was kind of what can we do now to improve the
situation. A one click download should be possible. I like the model of
Firefox for this. Clear download button with an automatically generated
default for OS and language, and below it, in smaller print "Alternative
versions and means to get OpenOffice.org" (or something along these lines).
So how does this work with OOo?
Has anybody thought about a splash page to sniff language and OS that redirects
to the
right page for the users language, where the download button already "knows"
the OS.
RJ...if you take a look at mozilla.com, this is essentially what happens
and what we're discussing. When we started on all this, I actually made
a lame attempt to download what moz had going on to see what their
scripting was like. I'll make another attempt at this as soon as I get a
little caught up with regular work things. Mozilla's intelligence is all
done with JS. But, it could be an AJAX implementation and not client
which makes things considerable faster on the uptake.
You can do this "preliminary investigation" with a variety of
technologies includes JS, servlet, cgi, etc etc etc.
As
far as the JRE, why not make the download a compressed file containing the
setup program,
the JRE and a ReadMe file telling the user whether they need the JRE or not?
If memory serves, there were issues with this quite a while back. This
approach doesn't work (well) with Linux (and if you mess with my with my
Java setup, you're dead!)
Randy
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