On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:38:01 Kay Schenk wrote: > Folks-- > > Having become very annoyed at recent changes to the DL area, I went on a > mission to find SOMETHING that would help us with Java detection for our > download, and choose the right product for our users. > > Thanks to a brilliant piece of JS by Eric Gerds, > http://www.pinlady.net/PluginDetect/ > I have incorporated this into a mockup for a new DL page. > > Please see the mockup at > > http://website.openoffice.org/tryouts/Kay/download/main_index.html > > The messages in the top right of course wouldn't be there in the final > page, this is just for your own benefit. > > We need LOTS of testing on this. It worked fine for me with my Linux and > JRE already installed...choosing the linuxintel w/o JRE. YIPEE!!!
OK, I've got a 64 bit Linux box, with (several) JRE installed (including the most recent Sun JRE). The script does not work on mine, using Opera. Tells me there is no JRE installed, even though I know that is not correct. Just checked in Firefox 2, and it works fine. seems the problem is in Opera, not the script. Also not working in Konqueror. Works in Epiphany. > > I ended up making a few cahnges to the scripting on the DL index page > and the download.js scripts to pass in this additional info, but not big > ones. > > Please let me know if this is something we wish to pursue. Our min JRE > version is now coded into the js on the mail DL index page (well my > mockup), so we can change this relatively easily. IMO, it is something which does need to be followed through on. I usually grab the package with JRE, but that's because it's the one I put on the CD (many of those who require a CD won't have JRE installed, so supply it as a standard - size is not too important to them). The above quick test do show that the script needs to be tested across different browsers though. -- Alex Fisher Co-Lead, CD-ROM Project OpenOffice.org Marketing Community Contact Australia/New Zealand http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/
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