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From: | Urs Liska |
Subject: | Re: Web: Download: Add introductory text (issue 40510046) |
Date: | Mon, 16 Dec 2013 11:16:10 +0100 |
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Am 16.12.2013 10:25, schrieb David Kastrup:
Just thinking out loud here...would it be worth looking into tweaking the >.htaccess file to do OS-based redirection on the download page, like many >sites do? That way, if someone requests download.html, they are redirected >to download-win.html if the server detects Windows, download-mac.html if it >dectects OS X, download-nix.html for *nix, and so on, with >download-all.html being the current page (and .htaccess silently >redirecting here if there is no OS match). This would allow us to put all >the information on one page for an operating system and recommend or not >based on what is actually available.No, based on what computer is used for downloading. That's more than often sufficiently different to make this a nuisance.
+1 What we could
attempt doing is to move the entry for the purportedly detected operating system to the top.
Or provide a "direct link" for that OS but keep the full list of entries below.
Urs
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