Am 17.06.2006 um 15:33 schrieb John Stiles: I kind of agree with this, to a certain degree, but DMGs are really the standard here. Users will have to learn about this concept fairly quickly if they ever plan on downloading software. Well, the same argument could have been made about the command line a couple years ago. I personally prefer giving my users the best user experience possible, and DMGs aren't it. I also saw it in support calls that a ZIP archive generally is the better use. You don't have to tell them to copy the application from the image before running it. You only tell them "double click the archive and it will extract the application out of it, then put the application wherever you like." You can't have such an easy description for a disk image.
I kind of agree with this, to a certain degree, but DMGs are really the standard here. Users will have to learn about this concept fairly quickly if they ever plan on downloading software.