Improve Download page ideas (Take 2)

[triplus]

As far as i am concerned it has my vote to be deployed. And i guess we can start getting feedback from regular users ASAP.

P.S. Linux should be mentioned too (AppImage):

For MacOS, Windows and source code, see the FreeCAD releases page.

[AR795]

I added Linux (AppImage) to the development releases section. Assuming everything else is alright, I will start converting the html page to php.

[Kunda1]

From mobile phone

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[AR795]

I included the release notes section from the wiki in the downloads page. For now I added it after the download links, but if needed they can be shifted before too.

[AR795]

Ok I converted the downloads page to php, which can be seen here https://github.com/AR795/FreeCAD-Homepa ... loads_page. Now I need to look for a way to test the php page...

[triplus]

I guess you could just create a PR, and after review and deploy phase, to see if any issues will get reported.

P.S. Or i guess the time to finally try out a LAMP/WAMP option has come.

[NormandC]

From mobile phone

Is your point is to show how broken it looks? I'm guessing the default MediaWiki theme with sidebar does not support mobile phones. On Wikipedia, the sidebar is replaced with a menu button. I wonder if they installed some special extension for it.

[AR795]

i guess the time to finally try out a LAMP/WAMP option has come.

It has indeed. So after several tries, I was able to finally setup the ubuntu server virtual machine and run the php web page on it.

While testing, I noticed some embarrassing mistakes I made, which I now corrected. I need to be on the lookout for more bugs.

[Kunda1]

Is your point is to show how broken it looks? I'm guessing the default MediaWiki theme with sidebar does not support mobile phones. On Wikipedia, the sidebar is replaced with a menu button. I wonder if they installed some special extension for it.

Yes, I think we should look in to fixing it.

[triplus]

It has indeed. So after several tries, I was able to finally setup the ubuntu server virtual machine and run the php web page on it.

Good to hear that.

While testing, I noticed some embarrassing mistakes I made, which I now corrected. I need to be on the lookout for more bugs.

Yes usually it makes sense to have a testing environment and to test such things, during development, as usually some issues get introduced, and can be detected after easily.