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

[Knoll Lars]

On 18/09/14 08:06, "Kojo Tero" <Tero.Kojo at digia.com> wrote:

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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.

The platform detection is extremely useful to show the right package to
download in the majority of cases. Before people (especially new users)
where usually very confused as to which package to choose.

The automatic download is a bit overdone currently, as it also downloads
on back/forward navigations and doesn’t remember that the package has
already been downloaded once. So we should consider whether that’s the
best approach or whether an approach more similar to the old download page
is better. It’s one more click, but then it’s very explicit, and people
will get exactly the package they asked for.

Cheers,
Lars