Danielico,

My suggestion would be more layout oriented to provide visual cues to the user, and be simple to code. Mockup:

1) main:

OS: [_AIX_] [_AmigaOS_] ... <-- "a name=" links at very top for quick easy jump to OS section

2) section header:

_AmigaOS_ <-- a name link back to top, AND *bold* font

3) subsections and package indents:

_Linux_
  RedHat
    Linux RPM
  Debian
    Linux DEB
  Generic
    Linux Sparc tar+gz

(#3 might seem like overkill, but in reality it should be clearly noted that my RPMs, for example, are made for RedHat and not Connectiva/Mandrake/etc)

Again, just my thoughts on making it more readable and navigatable without very much work at all. ;)

-te

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 10:26:42AM +0200, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> Hi friends
>
> Due to the large amount of various curl packages available for download, I've
> taken some further steps to automating the process of dealing with updates
> etc.
>
> Already now, many of the files that are provided from the curl site and its
> mirrors are uploaded by the maintainers of them. This takes a load off me and
> prevents me from being a bottle neck in the process.
>
> Until just a few hours ago, the download HTML page was manually edited so
> even when the maintainers uploaded new files and they began to get mirrored,
> I still had to edit the download page.
>
> In come my new server tool, that automaticly will detect new releases and
> update the page accordingly. Those who aren't detected automaticly can still
> be easily edited using a web based interface.
>
> Ok, this is all good and mostly informational on your behalf, but since I now
> machine-generate the download page it already looks a little different. And
> while mocking around with the look of the page, I thought I'd ask you, the
> users, what you think of the page right now and how we can improve the
> readability and usability of it.
>
> For example, do you think people get lost among all the packages? Can we
> decrease the amount of packages we throw in the face of users somehow? Would
> users like a 'which package is for me wizard-style' query page?
>
> --
> Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
>
>
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