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 :). >
One way to support this feature is to provide a way for users to report a download that didn't work so that Google could warn other users' about this download. The user would not need to know why a download didn't work to report it. Google's algorithm would figure that out from the users' (good and bad) configurations that were sent to it automatically when the users initiated the download. One issue: how to encourage users to report bad downloads? Or maybe this could be detected automatically by seeing how much the downloaded app distracts the user from using Chrome? Amir > -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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
