Re: [Adonthell-general] website improvement (?)

[Alexandre Courbot]

> The problem is, from the download cgi you can either redirect people to
> the actual download, or to the info page, but not both. The only
> possible solution seems to be to redirect to the info page, and put
> something like<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;
> URL="http://freesoftware.fsf.org/download/...";> onto that page. However,
> I'm not sure if all browsers support this. (Opera for example allows to
> turn such redirections off.) So you had to add something like "If your
> download doesn't start immediately, please click here" to the page, and
> people might have to click twice before they get what they want. 
> 
> The second issue is whether it's really okay to force people to visit
> that info page. Sure, it tries to be helpful, but it could still be
> annoying.
>
> 
> So I'm not really sure what to do. Any opinions?

I for myself hate it when sites force me to click one thousand times to
download something. On the other hand, as we're going to target more end
users, such a page would be usefull. It contains all the FAQs and
valuable informations condensed, and is short enough so people can read
it while downloading. And at least, we'd be sure people would have read
a little bit of documentation.

What I think is that, for once, exceptionally, just for this time and
without taking the habit, we could use these instruments of Satan that
are javascript and popups. The .cgi would generate a little, well sized
popup window with the instructions, and redirect you to the Savannah's
packages (just as it does already). We could even use different popups
for the different packages.

Advantages:
-people whose browser doesn't support Javascript will still be able to
download.
-people who hate popups and have disabled them won't be bored with them.
-J.Random Player will hopefully read the text and appreciate this
additional help.
-either way, no one will have to spend one extra click to download the
packages.
-javascript would for once be usefull ^_^

Sounds fair?

Alex.
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