I suggest to checkout some of the many popular fallback libraries for browser compatibility.
- modernizr - html5.js - svgweb.js - jquery - bootstrap - http://spoon.net/Browsers/ - https://browserlab.adobe.com/en-us/index.html On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org>wrote: > In the last few weeks we've seen users unable to see the big "Download" > button in > http://www.openoffice.org/**download/<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<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/<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. > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.**apache.org<dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://www.openoffice.org
