On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 18:37 +0000, jonathon wrote: > Matt wrote: > > > I have a better (?) suggestion: why not do what M$ does? Leave it out, > > but when the user tries to use a part of the app that needs it, start > > the process of downloading and installing the JRE. > > The fact that a program has to call home, to work correctly indicates > one of the following: > 1) The program is malware, designed to destroy your system; > 2) The program is a trojan: > 3) The advertising for the program is, at best, deliberately designed to > deceive, mislead, and otherwise con the victim into using something that > never was intended to meet their needs. > Not true! As I said elsewhere, besides OOo, there are other major apps that, when installed, allow the user to not install certain features at all, or to make their installation conditional, which means that they will be installed later, on demand as it were, when needed. For example, when I installed MS Office XP, I left the install packages selected as default, and sometime later, while using Access, I had need of something in the online help, which had not been installed. I got a dialog notifying me of this, and asking me to insert my program CD to allow it to be installed. We could do the same with the JRE, but the program could be told to download it from Sun, or find it on the local machine, then install it automatically for the user. The object in doing it this way is to keep the initial download size of our product as small as possible.
> > adding the missing functionality easily later on. > > OOo already has a reputation for violating a11y. Do your really want to > convince the world that OOo will_never_ be be in compliance with section > 508 (USA) or the equivalent European standards? > > As it is, an HR attorney can give corporate 100 000 reasons to not use OOo. > ???? What does all that have to do with making the installation of a particular feature of an app optional? And, what is "section 508"? I had to search to find what you were talking about with "a11y", which seems to have nothing at all to do with the topic at hand. Matt > If anything, the version with Java should be the default, and the other > version available only by playing "the Great Internet Hunt". > > xan > > jonathon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
