Re: lynx-dev lynx.browser.org causes DOS/Windows Users to fetch source.

[Al Gilman]

Makes sense to me.

I moved the 2.8 link to take you to the discussion of how to get
it in source and binary at Lynx links.  Subir conveniently has a
strategically located named anchor already in the page.

Al

to follow up on what David Woolley said:

> Having recently updated the office copy of Win32 Lynx, I became painfully
> aware that the lynx.browser.org page will lead many non-technical users
> to download the source code zip file when they actually wanted the Win
> 95 executables.  (I didn't fetch the wrong version, but I can see why people
> have reported doing this then complained that they can't install it.)
> 
> The problem is that the first link says it is for Lynx 2.8, and then
> points to a number of files including a ZIP file.  Presented with this,
> the average non-technical user is going to assume that he should follow
> that first link, not the Lynx Links one, and that the ZIP file is,
> like all the other ZIP files he deals with, an archive of the actual
> executable programs.
> 
> Given the move towards Win95 plug and play users, I think the first
> link should point to the Win32 binaries and/or that there should be a
> strong warning on the Lynx 2.8 sources page that this is NOT where to
> go if you are a non-technical Windows user, followed by a cross-link to
> the correct place.
>