Aside from the wet-sock-surprise that you mention when it comes to windows installers, some such installers offer beneficial screens such as pre-customizing how you prefer ot launch it (desktop icon, quick-launch icon, start menu), register the software as appropriate, and do some basic config/setup (notably RealOne and Quicktime Player want to know how irritating they should be, though on a scale of one to ten, neither lets you turn it down below a 7 or so)-- also Mail-Apps, which are pretty much useless before configuring, unless it can import your email account settings from somewhere.
But besides setup, most browsers in windows will by default gripe at launch that they are not the default browser. In IE you have to uncheck a box and hit a button in order for it to stop checking, and others are mostly the same. So instead of loading the failure that was Safari, he'd just run IE from an icon (instead of a link) and have IE bully the rights away from Safari.
Also, what is this webcore of which you speak? Is OSX full of inseparable, anti-competitive web components that will prevent outside browser technologies from ever taking hold? For shame! Split the company!
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Re: What is this "install" of which you speak?
Date: 2004-04-13 05:16 pm (UTC)But besides setup, most browsers in windows will by default gripe at launch that they are not the default browser. In IE you have to uncheck a box and hit a button in order for it to stop checking, and others are mostly the same. So instead of loading the failure that was Safari, he'd just run IE from an icon (instead of a link) and have IE bully the rights away from Safari.
Also, what is this webcore of which you speak? Is OSX full of inseparable, anti-competitive web components that will prevent outside browser technologies from ever taking hold? For shame! Split the company!