On 3/26/07, Jesse Kuhnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Arghh!! It just looks so ridiculous! ..Who decided that we need all of
these retarded lists of md5 / asc / etc / etc anyways...? When I
download a "professional product" from a company I'm usually presented
with one choice. (maybe two at most for different file formats)
F-!$ this...I'm sick of these ugly tables anyways. We can do better.
What about something fancier like
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html ?
The md5/asc links and other things will be available of course, but
the core content and most important download links will remain the
sole focus while these other secondary things are somewhere else less
distracting..
?
<snip/>
There is an important distinction between the professional (quotes or
not) product downloads and our downloads -- the grid of (external)
mirrors that help save us bandwidth.
This means it is somewhere between harder and impossible to ensure
that our downloads are not compromised, without providing sigs and
sums. We actually treat our /dist space as backup only, encouraging
folks to download off of our mirrors. Many of our download pages
stress the importance of verifying the authenticity of downloads, and
downloading sigs and sums from the /dist space (not from a mirror).
There is also the usability aspect, where people are more inclined to
grab the meta-data if it is right next to the main download.
This is not a distraction, but a necessity. Please continue to provide
these links such that they are conspicuous, and continue to stress the
importance of using these on the downloads page(s).
-Rahul
It'll probably have to wait until next weekend though.. Guess I should
revert the current site to at least make it not look worse.
On 3/25/07, Howard Lewis Ship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yep, but we need md5 & asc for each file type; it gets ugly quick!
>
> On 3/25/07, Jesse Kuhnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Jesse Kuhnert
Tapestry/Dojo team member/developer
Open source based consulting work centered around
dojo/tapestry/tacos/hivemind. http://blog.opencomponentry.com
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