User:Clouserw/DownloadProposal

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Problem: Releasing a new version of firefox/thunderbird requires editing hundreds of pages to put the new version in place, as well as some dicey javascript.

Goals are listed in bold, followed by my suggested solutions.

Adding a new version of firefox means changes in a single place. (Other than adding releasenotes, etc.)

We can use an SVN external to share these configuration files across multiple sites and projects (in our case, mozilla.com, mozilla-europe.org, mozilla-world.org, and any others that want to use them).

Let people choose alternative languages and/or platforms Just like most of our current pages have, we'll provide a link to "Other systems and platforms"

Provide a single, large "Download Now" button Similar to what we have now, we'll do platform detection in javascript to provide a single button that will be useful for the majority of traffic.

Provide a useful fallback when javascript is disabled Our current system shows a list of links to each platform - I think this is fine.

Provide a way to localize the names of platforms/abbreviations/software Mozilla-Europe is using a custom file (main.lang) to do this. I think this works well, we just need to make sure