[Development] www.qt.io/download-open-source is broken

[Kojo Tero]

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> Behalf Of Thiago Macieira
> Sent: 18. syyskuuta 2014 0:39
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> Subject: Re: [Development] www.qt.io/download-open-source is broken
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> On Wednesday 17 September 2014 20:25:22 Knoll Lars wrote:
> > Adding to myself: But I agree that downloading to a phone doesn't make
> > too much sense, and we should probably detect that you look at the
> > site from a mobile device. That part sounds like a plain old bug.
> 
> ugh... I hate those detections. Like Yahoo Finance deciding that my rekonq is
> a mobile browser and forcing me to the stripped down mobile site.

The reason for the detection is simply to make the page less intimidating. 
I did the same thing for qt-project.org/download (identify your browser) and it cut the amount of "you have fifty links on the download page, which one should I click?"-questions from the second most asked support question to almost zero.
Thus I told the web team to please do that for the new site too.

Sure we get the occasional person who wants to download the mac version on their linux machine for some reason, but in my experience those people are very capable of doing that extra click to show all the options.

As for starting the download on mobile automatically... yes, as Lars said, bug.

Tero

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