116652 - Link on front page to screenshots

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

It would be nice if some screenshots were available on a link from the front
page. Could show the classic and modern version of Mozilla, along with mailnews,
chatzilla and editor.

Comment 1

[James Cox]

-> taking QA contact so I don't need to watch Dawn anymore. ;)

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

I think this is a good idea.

Comment 3

[Peter Lairo]

This would attract many new users/testers. :)

Comment 4

[Daniel Wang]

*** Bug 206244 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Uli Stärk]

Well - hurry up - i think screenshots are very important!!

Comment 6

[Alec Flett]

does someone want to write copy for this page? 

Comment 7

[Daniel Wang]

I'll take this. I don't have access previlege to change the front page wrapper,
so linking from front page wouldn't be possible for me to do. But I can do a
screenshot page for http://mozilla.org/why/users.html . Will that be alright
with everyone?

Comment 8

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Cool, I think you should take bigshot.png (in the upper right corner), and
overlay it with "Screenshots: Click Here" and turn it into a link to a page with
various screenshots with descriptions of what themes were used, and what system.
See this page for an example of a good screenshots page:
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/fscreenshots.php3

Comment 9

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Attachment: New bigshot.png

Replacement bigshot.png

Replace the markup with:

<a href="screenshots.html"><img style="border-style: none" id="screenshot"
height="252" width="350" alt="See Mozilla Screenshots" title="Screenshots Image
Link" src="bigshot.png"></a>

Daniel Wang: I'm sure if you do that, someone else can create the link on the
front page, so what you suggested seems plenty reasonable to me.

Comment 10

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Attachment: Replacement

The previous one had issues.

Comment 11

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Attachment: Sample screenshot

Daniel Wang: Here's a reminder about this bug, and some help.

Here is a sample screenshot from the zipfile of images, html, and thumbnails I
am going to attach

Comment 12

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Attachment: Zip file containing screenshot.html and replacement bigshot.png

Can you also please make sure that your pages work with other browsers besides
Mozilla? We are trying to market it to people OTHER than Mozilla users,
generally.

I had problems with IE6

Comment 13

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Attachment: goes in the screenshots directory

Put this in the root/screenshots directory where root is where users.html is.

Comment 14

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Attachment: goes in the screenshots directory

same deal

Comment 15

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Attachment: goes in the screenshots directory

Last of four zip files. Sorry but Mozilla had a file size limit. This one also
contains the screenshots/thumbnails directory. Here is a listing of all the
files using cygwin's find command:

./files.zip
./screenshots
./screenshots/screenshots1.zip
./screenshots/screenshots2.zip
./screenshots/screenshots3.zip

Extract them exactly there, preserving directory structure and it should end up
like this:

./bigshot.png
./screenshot.html
./screenshots
./screenshots/mail-classic.png
./screenshots/mail-modern.png
./screenshots/mozilla-classic.png
./screenshots/mozilla-firebird.png
./screenshots/mozilla-modern.png
./screenshots/mozilla-thunderbird.png
./screenshots/thumbnails
./screenshots/thumbnails/mail-classic.png
./screenshots/thumbnails/mail-modern.png
./screenshots/thumbnails/mozilla-classic.png
./screenshots/thumbnails/mozilla-firebird.png
./screenshots/thumbnails/mozilla-modern.png
./screenshots/thumbnails/mozilla-thunderbird.png

Comment 16

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Oh, one last thing (I know you all are shaking your head at your mailbox right
now). Is it possible they could link to your page on the front page when your
page is finished? Maker sure to see how it doesn't look quite right in IE6.
Looks good in Opera 7.11.

Comment 17

[Daniel Wang]

Attachment: redesign of why/ ?

I was bored :-p

Comment 18

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Looks good, although I like the old color scheme a bit more. make sure it works 
in IE, Konqueror, and Opera. Did you set up the screenshots page?

Comment 19

[Daniel Wang]

Comment on attachment 127642 [details]
redesign of why/ ?

not yet. I'll wait for the site wraper to change before I make the screenshot
page.

Comment 20

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Sounds like a good idea.

Comment 21

[Daniel Wang]

*** Bug 228204 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 22

[Daniel Wang]

-> nobody

Comment 23

[fantasai]

I don't believe this is a "major" website problem.

The link should be from /products/mozilla1.x/, and the URI should be
/products/mozilla1.x/screenshots/

Comment 24

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Yes, I agree, but there are other products that need screeshots too. This bug
was filed before the new site layout. Due to the new layout, I realized there
should be more screenshots available than just mozilla1.x

http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
http://www.mozilla.org/products/camino/

These all need screenshots.

http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/screenshots/
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/screenshots/
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/screenshots/
http://www.mozilla.org/products/camino/screenshots/

Screenshots should be available for Linux, Mac OSX, and Win32.

An index for all the screenshots pages can be in:

http://www.mozilla.org/products/screenshots

Comment 25

[Anne (:annevk)]

Has there been made any progress on this?

Comment 26

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Doesn't seem there has been. All there are on the sites are mini screenshots.
All they'd need to do is make those link to larger screenshots.

Comment 27

[Daniel Wang]

*** Bug 273943 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 28

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

These screenshots, are they windows screenshots?

Comment 29

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

(In reply to comment #28)
> These screenshots, are they windows screenshots?

Sorry, comment #24 seem to answer my question :)

Comment 30

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

mozilla.org has drastically changed in the last few years. mozilla.com is for screenshots of the product(s) (Firefox and Thunderbird; other applications can use their own websites).

WONTFIX.