Re: [Opencd-devel] regarding installation method

[Henrik N. O. <h....@bt...>]

On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 08:57, Toby Inkster wrote:
> On Thu, 2 May 2002 21:14:14 -0700 (PDT)
> J Aaron Farr <jaa...@ya...> wrote:
> 
> JAF> Perhaps I should clarify by what I mean as an HTML based installer.
> JAF> There's a difference between and HTML based installer and and
> JAF> HTTP based installer....
> 
> I still don't think this is a great idea:
> 
> 1) it would look less professional than a proper purpose-built    application; and
> 2) people are wary about installing things off the Internet -- yes,
>    *I* realise they would be installing things of the CD, not the 
>    Internet... but would they?
> 

What if we modify K-meleon in such a way that it's not possible for the
novice to see that it's a browser.  It can be run in a permanent full
screen mode, and we can put in all our own buttons for navigation.  In
that case we should probably not link to any site on the net, but we can
still preserve the same look and feel of the web site.  In that way,
when the user does go on-line later the enviornment will be familiar.

This can be made to look quite professional with some good web design
(and I think we have people signed up that are good at this); certainly
much better than your average windows installer, with its ugly green
background and grey prompting windows.  

- Henrik

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