I don't believe it would be possible to use server-side detection since we're using Pelican. It could be easy to do some auto-OS detection though. I am a JS developer if you want my help doing that. Jquery makes it easier but I could try to code a solution by hand to avoid including it if that's important to the project. On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Akkana Peck <akkana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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-web-list mailing list > gimp-web-list@xxxxxxxxx > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-web-list > _______________________________________________ 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
