Interesting Download Widget for Solaris Enterprise System
Ever go shopping without a list? And then wish you'd brought one 'cause
you forgot half your stuff as you were wandering around?
That happens to me all the time, so related to today's Solaris Enterprise System
announcement, we created a little "shopping list" that sits on top of
the download center and keeps your choices visible. The Solaris
Enterprise System represents a beefy array of software and tools for
multiple platforms -- now available at no charge. This is a lot of software,
much of it even offered on CD and DVD images because of its size, so a single little
download stub or giant concatenated file wasn't really an option in the near term -- we
knew we needed a way to lead folks through multiple downloads and also
keep a "shopping list" visible for the items you were interested
in.
How it works is: (1) you select the products you want, on the Solaris 'get it'
page...
And then (2) that generates a page with an iframe, showing a persistent
list of software that can be downloaded (in multiple platforms, if you
like)...
Comments and thoughts welcome!
P.S. This was mostly Harley's idea, to whom we promised (another)
bottle of aged tawny.
Tunes: Motion City Soundtrack:
Everything is Alright
Anyway, one area I'd LOVE to see changed is the ability to re-download the ~2k instruction file for assembling DVDs. Imagine, you are new to Unix/Solaris and have downloaded your DVD parts. Now imagine you've tried to download the instructions but rather than a straight text file to download, it's opened in your browser instead, so you don't save the file and hit the back button. Now you try to select save target as or what not but the file has already been downloaded and is no longer able to be even VIEWED. I can understand restricting the ISO images or parts, but why restrict access to the help files and readme files?
Posted by Wes Williams on December 01, 2005 at 06:43 AM PST #