In the last few weeks we've seen users unable to see the big "Download"
button in http://www.openoffice.org/download/ due to broken (but still
used) browsers that failed to parse the JavaScript correctly. And
http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html cannot be used as a
fallback due to the same issue.
The JavaScript in other.html is used only to generate the page content,
and the result is independent of the user's browser: as Marcus
explained, it is there for convenience in creating the page.
Would it make sense to do the following?
1) Add an "All Apache OpenOffice downloads" link in the right-hand-side
column of http://www.openoffice.org/download/ near the top: this way, we
ensure that browsers with poor JavaScript support still display the link.
2) Rename other.html to other_js.html
3) Modify other.html by pasting the actual download table (can be
retrieved, for example, with Firebug from other_js.html) in its HTML.
This way we add a manual step (step 3) once per release, but we can be
sure that virtually all users can download OpenOffice in all cases
(working JavaScript, no JavaScript, broken JavaScript).
Regards,
Andrea.
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