Some of you may have integrated CAB files into your websites.
So when your new users (who do not already have a DWF ActiveX control installed) visit your web pages, they will download and install Autodesk Design Review 2009. No action is required on your part.
At this point, users download a setup file that is approximately 40MB in size.
There is a possibility that this may change. Some considerations is given to plans to link the same CAB file to an installer, that would not only download and setup the application but also do the same for all missing pre-requisites.
The advantage of the proposed process would be that users have all pre-requisites as well as the software installed. Disadvantage would be that the installation is likely to take longer.
Only alternative would be to continue to offer to link the CAB file to the MSI (only), but that requires all users to have all pre-requisites on the machine, else the installation will fail.
What would your preference be? Suggestions, comments?
Thank you.
-Volker
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Since the purpose of the codebase tag in the HTML object tag is to allow the site visitor to "see my design" without having to undertake any manual steps, then including the prequesites in a set of linked CAB files would be great. If the Autodesk Design Review install process could determine what a user needs and only download/install that, as opposed to downloading everything and then installing only what the user needs, then we could have the best of both worlds. Having a CAB-based install process that fails due to lack of prerequisites does no one any good. It makes the user take action to correct it. If you are going to have the user take action, then our customers might as well have an ADR link on their pages where their vistors can manually download and install.
Posted by: Scott Sheppard | November 10, 2008 at 08:51 AM
Volker,
Is it the future yet? There doesn't seem to be any information out there on CAB-based installation techniques for the current version (ADR 2010) that I can find.
Or is there a way in an html page, of detecting that they don't have ADR and pointing the user directly to the bootstrap installer?
Merle
Posted by: Merle | August 27, 2009 at 09:44 AM