Website autodetect OS

[Parsiad Azimzadeh]

Hi everyone,

I noticed that on the new Octave website (it looks quite nice, btw), there is a tabbed interface for the download links, with each tab corresponding to a particular OS.

However (for me at least) the default active tab is always GNU/Linux. It should be easy to add some JS to set the default active tab to the user's OS. See, e.g., http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7044944/jquery-_javascript_-to-detect-os-without-a-plugin. Figured this might help more users download Octave.

Also on the topic of greater user adoption, it might not be a bad idea to include package manager instructions for major distributions (e.g., Ubuntu & OS X) in the appropriate tabs.

Thanks,

Par

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Parsiad Azimzadeh [http://parsiad.ca]

PhD candidate

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