Re: [Opencd-devel] Uploaded HTML Based Installer

[Buchan M. <bg...@ca...>]

I don't know what the example tries to demonstrate, but Mozilla, being a
security-conscious browser, does not allow one to execute an exe with this easily. I
replaced the link to a text file with one to a small setup program, and the only
thing mozilla offers to do is save the file to a different location.

This is why I have issues with an html-based installer. If issues like this can be
overcome on every possible OS/browser combination possible on the target audience,
without the need for them to follow fancy tricks, we can use it. But if it is more
difficult to use than just finding the right setup files to run, it serves no
purpose. Using javascript to solve a problem like this may be viable, but can you
guarantee javascript capability and/or compatability across systems? I know this
might be nitpicking, but do you do for a machine running win95 with Internet Explorer 3?

I believe it should be relatively simple to write something in C++/WxWindows (I will
see if I can get around to it this weekend still) that will mimic something like
Demoshield. There are versions of wx for GTK, lesstif and MacOS X (I am not sure
about previous versions of Mac OS), all under GPL or LGPL.

Speaking of demoshield, has anyone tried my Demoshield demo yet? If not, I am
currently working on a much better one for OpenOffice.org at the moment, and will
post it somewhere when I am done.

Also, if we are going to consider html-based, we need to consider how best to use
the screen real-estate (you will see what I mean if you try my demoshield example).

And yes, PNGs rather than GIFs, image quality (with decent display like Mozilla) is
much better anyway.

Buchan

bud...@bu..., jsa...@di... wrote:
>
>Just got the OpenCDjs.zip
>Good work Jon,
>So far my only negative comment is should we be using gif
>format images ?
>What is the status on the unisys(?) patent on them
>Let's either stick to jpg or png
>Can we have the source code for the autorun.exe as well.
>Martin Stevens
>On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 12:00:07PM -0700, Jon Saltzman wrote:
>> Greetings -
>>
>> I saw that Henrik put up the anonymous FTP, so I put up a framework for an HTML
based browser install.  I didn't want to include any apps due to size, so the link
just points to a text file, but it seemed to work just fine with an application.
>>
>> I heard some talk that just clicking a link would not necessarily allow for the
end user to install software on some machines - I would suggest that the solution is
either a small javascript (easy to do), or simply to ignore the machines that it
won't work on... HTML based installations are fairly standard, and not that
ambigious, especially if designed well.
>>
>> The file is at http://66.197.181.104/incoming/openCDjs.zip
>>
>> I used a nice little program called UF AutoRun Creator which is completely
freeware to generate the autorun.inf and professional autorun.exe file.
>>
>> I will continue to mess with this and see if I can find away around the browser
download/install issue.
>>
>> -Jon
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