Re: Web: Download: Add introductory text (issue 40510046)

[Urs Liska]

Am 16.12.2013 10:25, schrieb David Kastrup:
> > Just thinking out loud here...would it be worth looking into tweaking the
> > >.htaccess file to do OS-based redirection on the download page, like many
> > >sites do? That way, if someone requests download.html, they are redirected
> > >to download-win.html if the server detects Windows, download-mac.html if it
> > >dectects OS X, download-nix.html for *nix, and so on, with
> > >download-all.html being the current page (and .htaccess silently
> > >redirecting here if there is no OS match). This would allow us to put all
> > >the information on one page for an operating system and recommend or not
> > >based on what is actually available.
> No, based on what computer is used for downloading.  That's more than
> often sufficiently different to make this a nuisance.

+1

What we could
> attempt doing is to move the entry for the purportedly detected
> operating system to the top.

Or provide a "direct link" for that OS but keep the full list of entries 
below.

Urs