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Old 07-13-2005, 03:02 PM
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Dumb question, but is there anything else hitting install does other than letting everyone know how popular a hack is?
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Old 07-13-2005, 03:04 PM
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if you click INSTALL the author can contact you when new updates are available
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Old 07-13-2005, 03:08 PM
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The problem is it's going to be one huge button!
Who cares? I'll just block its URL in my firewall :P
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Old 07-13-2005, 04:06 PM
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if you click INSTALL the author can contact you when new updates are available
How? Though the thread?
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Old 07-13-2005, 04:31 PM
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How? Though the thread?
No, by e-mail.

It's also polite - and helps an author know how many people are using his work.
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Old 07-13-2005, 08:13 PM
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Honestly I don't see a need to change it :ermm:

A simple Announcement explaining what the "INSTALL" button does should suffice

And if people aren't clever enough to figure out what the button does after reading that, that's their problem

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Ditto to that. An alt attribute is all that is needed.

Plus, how many hacks will have the following line become meaningless if the buttin is changed?
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Please click INSTALL if you have installed this mod
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Old 07-13-2005, 08:20 PM
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An ALT ATTRIBUTE will not help ... you are assuming that everyone understands the ALT ATTRIBUTE. It is best not to make assumptions like this.
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An ALT ATTRIBUTE will not help ... you are assuming that everyone understands the ALT ATTRIBUTE. It is best not to make assumptions like this.
It will help the people who take the couple of seconds to wait for alt text to appear.

I suppose if you think clicking a button is going to magically install a few hundred lines of code and alter your database, there's not really much hope to begin with.
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Old 07-13-2005, 08:50 PM
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It will help the people who take the couple of seconds to wait for alt text to appear.

I suppose if you think clicking a button is going to magically install a few hundred lines of code and alter your database, there's not really much hope to begin with.
...and you think the ALT ATTRIBUTE will do this?

a better overall interface is needed
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I suppose if you think clicking a button is going to magically install a few hundred lines of code and alter your database, there's not really much hope to begin with.
Not exactly a nice thing to say about the many newbies that have posted here saying they thought that's what it meant
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