So when I pointed Firefox to MSN tonight, this is what I saw. Is this really the best way of notifying users of an update? Could they have at least used a confirm() to allow the user to decide if they want to visit that url or not. Or perhaps use a <div/> to overlay the content of the page when it loads. Is a user supposed to type that url in by hand? Does the average user even know what to do when they see this dialog (other than hit “OK”)? Perhaps just say “visit silverlight.net and download the latest version”?
Just goes to show how awesome the Firefox automatic update system is.
Considering Microsoft has an update system on all Windows systems, you’d think at least for the Windows platform, they could rely on Windows Update.
Am I missing something? Is there really no better way than an alert()?
Remember everyone, that’s 0x4009e, those are ‘0’, not ‘O’.
No wonder people hate technology so much.