Am 09/02/2013 06:49 PM, schrieb Alexandro Colorado:
On 9/2/13, 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/ 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.
How are we using the<noscript> tag within others? and which kind of
content is it trying to plug?
Don't ask, just have a look into the webpage. ;-)
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.
Problaby the quicker solution, still is just a patch instead of just
doing good webdev.
2) Rename other.html to other_js.html
This is a bad idea, I've seen many alternative clones being
unmantained by webmasters.
Just to leave no doubt. If we create new webpages, then we have to
maintain them.
Marcus
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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