276872 - Include OS name in download links on multi-language-download-page

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[Stian Soiland]

Index: mozilla-org/html/products/thunderbird/all.html
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RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla-org/html/products/thunderbird/all.html,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 all.html
--- mozilla-org/html/products/thunderbird/all.html	31 Dec 2004 02:25:53 -0000	1.3
+++ mozilla-org/html/products/thunderbird/all.html	3 Jan 2005 15:37:24 -0000
@@ -116,9 +116,9 @@
           var code = language + "-" + region.toUpperCase();
           document.writeln("<tr><td>" + build.name + "</td><td lang=\"" + code
+ "\">" + build.localName + "</td>");
           if (build.official) {
-            document.writeln("<td><a href=\"" + getDownloadURLForLanguage(code,
PLATFORM_WINDOWS) + "\">Download</a></td>");
-            document.writeln("<td><a href=\"" + getDownloadURLForLanguage(code,
PLATFORM_MACOSX) + "\">Download</a></td>");
-            document.writeln("<td><a href=\"" + getDownloadURLForLanguage(code,
PLATFORM_LINUX) + "\">Download</a></td></tr>");
+            document.writeln("<td><a href=\"" + getDownloadURLForLanguage(code,
PLATFORM_WINDOWS) + "\">Windows</a></td>");
+            document.writeln("<td><a href=\"" + getDownloadURLForLanguage(code,
PLATFORM_MACOSX) + "\">OS X</a></td>");
+            document.writeln("<td><a href=\"" + getDownloadURLForLanguage(code,
PLATFORM_LINUX) + "\">Linux</a></td></tr>");
           } else {
             document.writeln("<td colspan='3'>Not Yet Available<\/td>");
           }

On the Thunderbird advanced download page, the problem is that after scrolling
to say "Norwegian", there's three "Download"-links, but it's impossible to know
which link is for Windows, MacOS or Linux unless scrolling up again.

The suggestion is to instead just print the OS name instead of thousands of
"Download" links.

The same problem applies to http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/all.html

Comment 1

[Daniel C]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050811 Firefox/1.0+

Status: UNCONFIRMED -> RESOLVED
Resolution: --- -> WORKSFORME

Each Download link has an OS-specific image preceding it. The images have the OS
name as the alt attribute too.

Comment 2

[Stian Soiland]

Agreed, this solution with small images work well.