Re: Improving the get-fedora page

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On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 23:39 -0500, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 22:31 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
> > > We can ask our UI experts how best to do the ? mark, but overall +1 to
> > > this approach.  Yet ...
> > >
> > > There are three good ways from here:
> > >
> > > * Leave page as-is, then ? => link to wizard
> > > * Make page a wizard, with a link off to "I know what I want"
> > > * Two-boxes in the middle:  "Help me figure out what I need" ... "I know
> > > what I want" that link out to appropriate pages
> > >
> > > "User Interaction Expert, where are you?!?"
> > 
> > I hope I'm not showing my ignorance here but is there any way for
> > javascript/java/OSS language to grab this information?  Perhaps we should
> > focus on a "What is recommended for this machine?" type button.
> 
> We could parse the User-agent header. It's easily-enough faked though.

Nor is it necessarily the target install system.  We could use it to
make a suggestion, though.  "Looks like your system is an i686 ..."

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