[haiku] Re: More Geolocation testing, this time with something prettier

Hi Ryan,

On 2009-09-11 at 04:44:21 [+0000], Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> So please go to the page at the bottom of this email and see if it tells 
> you your location and sorts the download list properly. Each location 
> will have the distance between you and it (over the surface of the 
> Earth.) Those in the US will see distances in miles, the rest of the 
> world will see kilometers (it's not exactly high class localization, but 
> I think it is a decent compromise.) For those with Firefox please check 
> your JavaScript error console or Firebug if you have any problems.
> 
> If it works, great, no need to respond here. If it doesn't, please try to 
> give me some details. Also the styling is still in flux and we know the 
> orange highlight doesn't blend well with the external link marker images.
> 
> Here is the page in question: http://production.web.haiku-os.org/get-haiku

It worked great, but I still have a comment. :-) Maybe it would be better 
not to display the "It looks like you are located in or near XXX" sentence. 
It told me a city I never heard of before. While I am certainly near that 
town, it's just a little irritation. The download links are correctly 
sorted by distance, that's all that matters.

My second suggestion is about the MD5 checksum. The page does not mention 
how to check the MD5 checksum. In most shells, there is the md5sum command 
line tool available, I don't know how to best put this into words, also 
maybe there is an easy to use graphical tool for Linux or Windows users? 
Maybe something like "for example by running the command line tool md5sum 
on the downloaded file" is good enough.

Best regards,
-Stephan

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