Pat David writes: Pat> Downloads Page Pat> I'm a bit conflicted about this. I understand that we used to use jquery Pat> to try and guess the OS the visitor was on, and present them with a Pat> sub-section of the downloads page. Pat> Pat> I am almost thinking that perhaps we can simply present users with clearly Pat> marked links at the top of the Downloads page to choose which OS they would Pat> like a download for? Any objections to going this route? Andrew Pullins writes: Andrew> Please, please, please do this. after seeing other sites do this I can't Andrew> stand when a site shows me every single OS option out there. LibreOffice Andrew> has a really nice download page Andrew> <http://donate.libreoffice.org/home/dl/rpm-x86_64/5.0.1/en-US/LibreOffice_5.0.1_Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz>. Andrew> Not only does it give you a great big download button for your OS but it Andrew> but it gives you the option to download it through torent, slect a differnt Andrew> OS, change the version you are downloading, provides source code, [ ... ] Pat David writes: Pat> Do you mean to do the auto-OS detection, or to not? I wasn't sure either, but it's worth noting that the libreoffice download page at http://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/?version=5.0.1 (I'm not sure if that's the same page as the one Andrew likes -- different URL) doesn't need javascript or jquery for OS detection. Even with noscript, it correctly shows me a download button for Linux x86. Presumably it's doing server-side checking of the browser's User-Agent. Personally, I'd be fine with Pat's suggestion of just having links at the top, but server-side user agent detection is a nice touch. Andrew> There are only two things I could suggest is that this site is not Andrew> responsive and that is becoming a big thing right now. don't know how much Andrew> more work it would be to do that but it would be nice. Pat> The site is actually responsive. Try looking at it on a mobile screen, On the Downloads page, the page content is responsive but the image at the top forces the page to 900px wide. Maybe that's what Andrew is talking about? The rest of the site is very responsive. One other issue: the webfonts in the toolbar at the top look awful in either Firefox or Chromium on Debian unstable. Debian seems to have a problem in general with rendering webfonts -- I've seen it on other pages that use them. Screenshot: http://shallowsky.com/tmp/gimp-news-screenshot.jpg ...Akkana _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
