Re: [us-marketing] Re: North American Community DVD – Test of English version on 02-24-2011

On 02/25/2011 09:25 AM, Marc Paré wrote:
> Hi Tim:
>
> Le 2011-02-25 09:17, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions a écrit :
> > Tested the North American Community DVD I have been working on. Here are
> > the notes from my test.
> > I tested the DVD on a DELL Inspiron 1525 running Vista.
> >
> > Installed the Windows all-lang [all languages] by saving it to the hard
> > drive and running the .exe file, since it will not install directly
> > though the HTML page due to a FireFox browser security feature, IE has
> > an run directly option I almost never use..
>
> Do you know what the problem is with Firefox? It would be nice to fix 
> this. I think someone mentioned that the DE LibreOffice-box web pages 
> defaulted to a version of Firefox on the actual DVD. Do you think that 
> we should do the same rather than relying on the user's browser?
>
> Cheers
>
> Marc

What do you mean by "defaulted to a version of FireFox"?  What problem 
is there in FireFox?  Do you mean the lack of the run a file from a web 
site's page?  That is a major security feature that is a part of FireFox 
and hopefully other browsers.  That enabled with IE is a major problem 
with automatically running executable codes and possible hacking 
"nastiness".  I would rather have the save to hard-drive first, then 
execute.  Microsoft Windows just added a security update that limits 
auto-running files off external media, except Movie DVDs and Music CDs.  
I have not tried auto-running from a thumb-drive, so I cannot know if 
that works.  So there is no fixing of FireFox.  I do thing the 
lower-skilled computer user may want to "download" the install file to 
their hard-drive, then install it.  We/I may need to add text to the 
pages to deal with that type of issue.

Have someone looked at the web page logs to see what is the percentage 
of the different browsers?  There may be such a log option on the 
hosting service.  I do not remember if my current system has it, but I 
think it should.  With that log report, you can decide which browsers 
are most likely used to access the site.  I think that you should make 
the web site/pages work for FireFox, IE, Chrome, Safari [Mac and 
Windows], and Opera, Camino [Mac].  These seem to be the standard 
browser options.  My IE browser works with the DVD pages well with the 
German site's

<!--[if IE 6]>
<style type="text/css">
        @import url(themes/tdf/css/ie6.css);
</style>
<![endif]-->

page header script.  I kept that in the HTML in the DVD pages I am 
working with.


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