Hi Martin,

I don't have a way to try this since I only have windows machines at home but I am willing to help in other ways If I can. :)

The website download improved so much over the years! It is way more practical than it was before.
I was just wondering if we could modernize it somehow... but I know that there's a lot of intelligence under the hood.

I thought it was a nice example, the VLC one, because it auto detects the operating system and architecture (like blender). But it is also very nice to look at the libre office download page example (https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/)

What is nice from the blender download page example is that it auto detects the operating system and architecture (https://www.blender.org/download/) which also resembles the Download page of Google Chrom (https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/desktop/index.html). One page I really think its beautiful is the Krita's download page example (https://krita.org/en/download/krita-desktop/) is there something we can sell related to Inkscape (wheter it's professional support or custom made development ) that could be offered at download the download page? I feel we could spread something from the project in this section since it is the one with most visibility when new releases are published.

Just a couple of ideas..





--Victor Westmann

2017-08-10 22:22 GMT-07:00 Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...>:
On 10 August 2017 at 21:33, Victor Westmann <victor.westmann@...400...> wrote:
> Could we try to use something like this: https://mths.be/platform
>
> To offer the user something like this: https://www.videolan.org? (please
> note the big blue button)
>
> Just a suggestion :-)
>

Thanks for the link Victor,

The python implementation is pretty good as far as os detection goes.
It does specific things like parses out known linux variants. A lot of
the bog standard os detectors are rather crappy with Linux detection.
Do you have any trials on how good this js library is for Linux
distros?

We're also parsing out 64 vs 32 bit.

Best Regards, Martin Owens