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[Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl>]

Hi,
 I have added TTLS-GTC whish is NOT supported by us on Windows, so that 
you can see the grey version also on newer Windows,
Tomasz

W dniu 2013-08-26 08:24, Stefan Winter pisze:
> Hello,
>
> as you may recall, one of our planned features for 1.1 is to detect the
> user's platform, and make "his" download much more prominent than the
> others, to reduce the error rate if people don't know which operating
> system they are using.
>
> This is now implemented and seems to work nicely.
>
> We are still seeking input on the visuals though. There are two basic
> questions
>
> a) only show the featured download, making the others an extra click
> away - vs. showing all, just make the featured one bigger / more flashy
>
> b) What to do if the platform is recognised, but the EAP type is not
> offered by CAT? Display the button as prominent as usual, but greyed out
> - vs. show all download buttons equally as in previous releases
> (including the one, grey as usual)?
>
> A third question, "What if the user comes from a totally unsupported
> platform?" is one we answered with: just show all buttons in equal size
> as before; there is nothing else particularly clever that we could do.
> Hope that's okay.
>
> The current design uses the a) "hide the others" and b) "show a big grey
> button" approaches.
>
> Please let us know how you feel about this. To see both in action,
> browse to the following IdP download with either Linux, Mac OS or
> Windows XP.
>
> http://cat.eduroam.pl/trunk/?idp=1
>
> Then:
>
> - the profile "TTLS" will give you the blue featured download button
> - the profile "PWD" will give you the grey featured non-download button
>
> If you use Windows > XP, then both cases will yield the download button;
> so you can't see the effect of disabled buttons.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Stefan Winter

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