Issues with download from http://mercurial.selenic.com/
Mads Kiilerich
mads at kiilerich.com
Mon Jan 3 10:01:57 CST 2011
I noticed some unexpected behavior on http://mercurial.selenic.com/ with
32 bit XP.
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11)
Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11)
The page contains a highlighted box with:
Download now
Mercurial 1.7.3
TortoiseHg 1.1.8 with
The link shown when pointing the mouse there is
"http://mercurial.selenic.com/downloads", but clicking on "Mercurial
1.7.3" starts download of tortoisehg-1.1.8-hg-1.7.3-x64.msi .
1. TortoiseHg is an excellent tool, but I would expect the default
download on Mercurials web page to be what the Mercurial project
supports. TortoiseHg could be recommended as an alternative download
with a "this is something else" comment.
2. Mouse over should show what clicking will do.
3. It shouldn't recommend x64 for 32 bit XP.
/Mads
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