site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com -- m On 18 May, 2007, at 16:55, Peter Bierman wrote: -pmb -- mikey On 18 May, 2007, at 14:17, Chris Cooksey wrote: Is the presence of the other files preventing the auto-launch of the Installer? If so, is there a way to work around that? _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... 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. 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. 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. 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. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/bierman% 40apple.com This email sent to bierman@apple.com This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com