On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 02:59:19AM +0100, Dale Harvey wrote:
Its not at completion yet, but enough work has been done to probably show everyone for opinions, bug reports.
The page apparently assumes that images are enabled. With images disabled, I get white writing on white background for some text (e.g. the possible languages, and the grey links on the left when the mouse hovers over the links), which isn't a good idea :) .
Similarly, the "Latest stable version: 0.43" text is very pale grey that overlaps a white area.
Running `tidy' (http://tidy.sourceforge.net/) on the French version (at least) finds a few problems: e.g. a nested link (<a> within <a>), a bare `&' in a <pre> element that should be written & (yes, even inside <pre>), an unclosed <div> element (for top or wrapper), and notes that some of the <img> elements lack an alt attribute (which may or may not be a problem, depending on the purpose of those images, e.g. whether someone might want to download those images for later viewing; at least one of the two images inside the download <a> element should have an alt attribute to indicate where the link goes to).
I'm not sure about whether this is good or not:
window.onload = function() { if (navigator.platform.indexOf("Win32") != -1) { document.getElementById("downloadnowlink").href = "http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/inkscape/Inkscape-0.43-2.win32.exe?downlo..."; }else if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Mac OS X") != -1) { document.getElementById("downloadnowlink").href = "http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/inkscape/Inkscape-0.43-4.dmg?download"; } }
Certainly there are cases where the person would want something else (e.g. using a public library etc. to browse the web and download things to use at home with a different platform), and in some cases we'd like to encourage people to download something else: e.g. we might encourage people to grab svn, or a daily build (after reading the description there so they can decide whether daily builds are for them or not). People who choose one of these instead presumably benefit themselves, but also may submit bug reports (or even patches?) that benefit everyone else. We have a shortage of Windows developers, but lots of Windows users using the web site. If 1% of 1% of them start contributing, then the other 99.99% can benefit by much more than the cost of an extra click to download.
How about a more subtle change, like always directing to download.php, but appending `#win32' etc. to the URL ?
pjrm.