[Gimp-web] Downloads section

[yay]

5% don't use javascript, that's a pretty large share of people. Would it
be possible to redirect the people who don't use javascript to a page
that has download links for all platforms? That way we would make sure
that everybody finds what they're looking for.



On on., 2008-10-22 at 12:53 +0200, Jakub Steiner wrote:
> Hi.
> The page should serve a download based on the platform/system the
> browser runs on first. At the cost of working only on
> javascript-enabled browsers, this sounded like a better solution than
> providing downloads for all platforms and the source on one page.
> 
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:34 PM, yay <yay at gtuts.com> wrote:
>         Hi there
>         
>         I wondered if it would be more beneficial to change this page
>         http://gimp.org/downloads/ so that it has easy-to-see download
>         links for
>         the windows and mac version as well.
>         
>         The reason I say this is because I noticed that in
>         non-gimp-communities
>         such as Yahoo answers alot of people ask where they can
>         download Gimp
>         for windows or mac are often given the link
>         gimp.org/downloads/ as an
>         answer as opposed to gimp.org/windows/ or gimp.org/macintosh/.
>         
>         Some of those people actually download the source and come
>         back and say
>         that there's something wrong with the download and it doesn't
>         work and
>         they give up on Gimp.
>         
>         So it seems to me we could get more Gimp users by simply
>         adding links to
>         the windows and mac downloads on the downloads page.
>         Preferably one
>         should put links for linux, windows and mac at the top of the
>         page next
>         to each other so they are easy to spot.
>         
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