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The reason is that I failed to test on firefox. Cross-browser issue
that I got wrong - now fixed, thanks.

I'm not doing browser/platform detection, just a static page. I have
learnt from past experience that long-term maintainability boils down
to "don't do anything fancy"

Dan


2009/4/24, Sciss <contact@...>:

> thanks dan, looks great. only.... why my machine shows me the linux download
> although i'm on os x...?
>
>  e.g. http://www.irongeek.com/browserinfo.php
>
>  gives me
>
>  Operating System        Intel Mac OS X 10.4
>  Entire User Agent String        Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X
> 10.4; de; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032608 Firefox/3.0.8
>
>
>  ciao, -sciss-
>
>
>
>  Am 24.04.2009 um 13:21 schrieb Dan Stowell:
>
>
>
> > Thanks all for the input. Updated webpage, hopefully much more
> > compatible with humans:
> > http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/downloads/
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > 2009/4/23, Sciss <contact@...>:
> >
> > > or even
> > >
> > >  http://puredata.info/downloads
> > >
> > >  is more easily readable because all the download links are grouped
> together
> > > and you can easily see the right one from the OS-icons....
> > >
> > >  maybe choose one version as the default download, e.g.
> > > SuperCollider-With-Extras, which is what an average user will download,
> and
> > > put the vanilla SC3, SC-realized, SC-sourcecode etc. more down in the
> > > document.
> > >
> > >  ciao, -sciss-
> > >
> > >
> > >  Am 23.04.2009 um 13:08 schrieb Sciss:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > maybe the download page could suggest a proper version automatically,
> > > >
> > > determining the user's operating system. like
> > >
> > > >
> > > > http://www.firefox.com  ---> big one click button
> > > >
> > > > or at least very easily accessible, like
> > > >
> > > > http://processing.org/download/
> > > >
> > > > ?
> > > >
> > > > furthermore, since it is quite an effort to access it from the
> sourceforge
> > > >
> > > project page, i think there should also be a button for the 3.3 RC ?
> > >
> > > >
> > > > ciao, -sciss-
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Am 23.04.2009 um 08:52 schrieb Dan Stowell:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Hi all -
> > > > >
> > > > > The downloads webpage is rubbish.
> > > > > http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/downloads/
> > > > >
> > > > > Really need to simplify it and make it easy to use. Would be
> grateful
> > > > > for your suggestions. Which things on that page should be removed?
> > > > > Which should be emphasised? Removing things is quite important I
> > > > > think, cutting down on the clutter.
> > > > >
> > > > > Perhaps there should be separate webpages for each platform:
> > > > > "downloads/mac", "downloads/linux", "downloads/win"? That might make
> > > > > things more pleasant. But then there are miscellaneous things which
> > > > > might not fit that subdivision. (freebsd? ;)
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > > Dan
> > > > >
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