Re: the sc downloads webpage

> 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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