Re: [website-dev] too many download areas?

Hello Kay,

first of all I'm sorry for my late reply. I think I've overseen your 
mail. :-(

When opening both webpages in Firefox (Windows and Solaris) I get the 
mentioned 3.2.1 dwnload files. But this doesn't work in IE. On 
"http://download.openoffice.org/test/index_k.html" there is just a small 
green line instead of the green box.

And on "http://www.openoffice.org/index_new.html" the download area 
isn't displayed when extending via the double arrow.

For both errors here the details when double clicking on the warning 
symbol in the status bar:

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.2; 
Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 
3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 
3.5.30729; OfficeLiveConnector.1.4; OfficeLivePatch.1.3)
Timestamp: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 13:46:04 UTC

Message: 'undefined' is null or not an object
Line: 46
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://download.openoffice.org/test/DL_button.js


Best regards

Marcus



Kay Schenk wrote:
> Hello again...see below.
> 
> On 11/16/2010 01:39 AM, Marcus Lange wrote:
>> Hello Kay,
>>
>> so you don't mean the JS stuff that is different but he HTML coding,
>> right? Of course it could be changed in a way that only one styling is
>> used on both webpages or the www... part is linking to download...
>>
>> But honesty, from the perspective of a normal user I like the very easy
>> way to download the pre-guessed build from the www... part without to
>> digging deeper on the website or to choose something on the "other.html"
>> webpage.
>>
>> I don't know if we want to loose this nice piece of comfort for the
>> user. What do other people think of this?
> 
> OK--I MAY have come up with a solution. The main page has quite a bit
> different/more styling than the download.openoffice.org page, but I may
> have arrived at a solution of sorts. At least we could maintain coding
> (for the actual DL button) in only one place...this eing said I have
> somehow "lsot" of the stling for the interal DL button on the home page
> (but perhpas when you see what it is -- the options -- you might not
> object too much).
> 
> I took out MOST of the nittering alerts as well.
> 
> See versions at--
> 
> http://www.openoffice.org/index_new.html
> 
> http://download.openoffice.org/test/index_k.html
> 
> 
> 
>> Best regards
>>
>> Marcus
>>
>>
>>
>> Kay Schenk wrote:
>>> On 11/14/2010 03:07 PM, Marcus Lange wrote:
>>>> Hello Kay,
>>>>
>>>> I know the scripting on both pages a bit, however, not in that detail
>>>> that I would say, hey, yes they are different.
>>>>
>>>> Please can you describe in some short sentences the differences of both
>>>> systems? Would it be possible to bring them together?
>>> OK, here is my rather short, overview of the differences.
>>>
>>> It seems both areas are basically generating similar (maybe exact)
>>> internal green DL box stuff...the big green buttons. The styles applied
>>> to these are different however due to their locations -- i.e. home page
>>> vs download page.
>>>
>>> It seems conceivable to construct ONE set of constructs for the button
>>> itself through function calls, and mess around with how to do the
>>> styling depending on what page we're on.
>>>
>>> This would eliminate the duplication in coding for what is happening on
>>> both pages I think.
>>>
>>> In summary, maybe a way to do this an eliminate the duplication. I will
>>> work along these lines....and hopefully we can do this.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Marcus
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Kay Schenk wrote:
>>>>> However, I would like to re-open the discussion about this due to
>>>>> maintenance issues of these two areas.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am proposing that the download "button" on the home page return to
>>>>> just being a button that gets the user to
>>>>> download.openoffice.org/index.html