Andrea, The original reporter did not receive any noscript message. He got a download page that had no buttons for Downloading Full Release and for Downloading Language Pack. Instead, there were two tiny circles, suggesting that the technique for filling in the correct links on the browser page failed.
In addition, the light-green area beneath the darker-green download information was empty. This is usually where details about the release version, sizes, signatures, hashes, and some additional links appear. I don't know where that data comes from, but it did not appear. The Original reporter sent me screen shots that confirm this behavior. In addition, if the version is changed from 4.1.2 to 4.1.1, everything works properly, according to a later report. I don't know if that is enough to figure out a source of the difficulty. Although the original reporter used both Internet Explorer 11 and Chrome on Windows 10 Home, presenting the same problem, it was later discovered that the Edge browser opens the page just fine. - Dennis > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] > Sent: Friday, November 13, 2015 11:47 > To: users@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 released > > Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > > I believe the frame with release information is retrieved from > SourceForge. > > No, nothing from SourceForge appears on the openoffice.org domain. We > simply link to binary files provided by them. > > All the JavaScript is custom and stored in SVN. People without > JavaScript see this notice: > --- > Apache OpenOffice Downloads - Official Site > > The browser seems to have JavaScript disabled. This technique is used > for showing the actual download link. If you want to download Apache > OpenOffice anyway, click this text to choose from the alternative > download webpage. You will have to navigate to the > version/binaries/language subfolder and and download the file named > Apache_OpenOffice_version_os_platform_package_language.ext. Our > apologies for the inconvenience. > --- > Considering that we are in 2015 (I mean: people who browse without > Javascript are doing it deliberately and are having a non-standard > browsing experience on most sites), this is already more than enough. > > The "click this text" above links to > http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/ (surprise! > this is where it comes from) and from there, without JavaScript, one can > indeed browse to the folder and download OpenOffice with a mostly > painless procedure (and no ads will be displayed). > > Note: There's a typo ("and and") in the above text, I've just fixed it > in revision 1714258. > > Regards, > Andrea. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
