227859 - System Requirements poorly worded

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Keith Lea]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

The System Requirements on the left look like this:

System requirements
    * Red Hat Linux 7.0 and higher
    * Mac OS X and higher
    * Windows 95 and higher
    * More information...

I think that's pretty confusing for two reasons:

1. Red Hat Linux 7.0 AND higher are required? Windows 95 AND something higher?
That's not what it means, but that's what it sounds like to me. 

I suggest "Red Hat Linux 7.0 or better" "Windows 98 or better"

2. I need Red Hat Linux AND Mac OS X AND Windows 98? That's not what you mean,
but that's how it sounds, partly because of the "and"s I talked about in #1.

Here's my final suggestion:

System requirements
    * Windows: Win95 or better
    * Linux: Red Hat 7.0 or better
    * Mac: OS X
    * More information...

I think this is clearer in both ways, but even clearer would be:

System requirements
    * Mozilla for Windows: Win95 or better
    * Mozilla for Linux: Red Hat 7.0 or better
    * Mozilla for Mac: OS X
    * More information...

I know that's too verbose to fit as nicely into the sidebar, but I think it
would be the best as far as being easy to read and to understand.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Redhat 6 was/is "better" than Windows 98 depending on who you ask. Ditto MacOS9...

Comment 2

[Daniel Wang]

fixed. changed to XXX or higher. (don't think later is always "better" :-p)

>     * Linux: Red Hat 7.0 or better
that's probably incorrect

glad that people are helping w/ web site :-)