Re: Auto-launch Installer From dmg
Re: Auto-launch Installer From dmg
- Subject: Re: Auto-launch Installer From dmg
- From: Michael Watson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 17:14:08 -0400
I didn't say it was dangerous, but because it's so non-standard that
it really feels a bit unsettling to a lot of users. Click a link and
a program you've never seen before launches? At least you're used to
Mail jumping to the front--after all, you're familiar with Mail. But
if you've never used Jim Bob's XYZ Installer before, that might feel
pretty foreign.
Just thoughts and observations from doing customer support with
things like installers and disk images.
--
m
On 18 May, 2007, at 16:55, Peter Bierman wrote:
Actually, we've gone to great lengths to make sure that's safe. In
some configurations, it's possible to click on a link in a web page
and have the link open as a new installer window.
This isn't any different than clicking on a mailto: link to send an
email, or an FTP URL that opens in the Finder.
-pmb
At 3:40 PM -0400 5/18/07, Michael Watson wrote:
I can't say I'd ever want to see clicking a link result in the
automatic launch of an installer application.
Are you sure you honestly want to do this? It's /very/ non-
standard and really kind of frightening for end users.
--
mikey
On 18 May, 2007, at 14:17, Chris Cooksey wrote:
When the user clicks on the link in Safari and clicks ok to the
security
question, both files are downloaded and unzipped, both dmgs are
mounted, but
only one of them goes on to auto-launch the .pkg in the Installer.
One of the images contains only the .pkg file. The other image
contains
other files in addition to the .pkg file. Other than that, I can
see no
significant difference.
Is the presence of the other files preventing the auto-launch of the
Installer? If so, is there a way to work around that?
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