I agree. It might be a cool idea, but how to implement this is a big problem. Also, not every single game developer put the system requirement on readme file, if they do, it's not the same format. How do you compare Intel Pentium processor to the new multi-core Intel Core 2? Not to mention the graphics cards. I don't see how that's going to work. Let the browser does what it's supposed to do, and leave this stuff to the users. You should check the system requirement before you download it. That's more practical.
Lance On Sep 28, 10:24 am, Jlew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem with looking inside zip files and such is that you would > need to download the entire thing before you would be able to view the > contents. I don't see how this would really work. You would need to > have google download the file then check it and then allow you to > download it. That would put a lot of load on the google servers as > well. It would be more of a google feature then chrome. Chrome would > have to look at a google database every time you wished to download > something. Some could say that could have privacy issues. > > It is a cool idea, just I don't see it would be all that useful. > > I would have to say the only way it would work is if instead people > would report bad downloads to a database which chrome would look at. > If they were to go that route, maybe allow people to put notes about > different files. That way when people want to download a file, they > could see user comments. > > I just don't think it is feasible feature at this time. > > On Sep 28, 3:14 am, "Sean Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Not a bad idea! I think the only way to implement this right now would be > > to do some detection on the file type - i.e. "exe" is ok for Windows, but > > not Mac - it could even look inside Zip files to do some basic analysis. > > Now to fully implement what you suggest would require some type of > > standardized XML file which listed the hardware and software requirements > > for the file that is downloaded; unfortunately, to my knowledge no such > > standards exist. Someone should push for this to be started and to get PC > > software makers to include it in the downloads... then get that feature into > > Chrome :). > > > -Sean > > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Amir Michail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Downloading a very long game demo for example just to find out it > > > won't run on your computer is really frustrating. > > > > It would be much better for Chrome to warn users about downloads that > > > won't work. A mechanism for doing this might examine the system > > > requirements on the web page and/or README. For example, after the > > > download, the README might be analyzed and data sent to Google to warn > > > other users about potential issues with the download. > > > > Amir > > > > -- > > >http://chatbotgame.com > > >http://numbrosia.com > > >http://twitter.com/amichail --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
