On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Julien Olivier wrote:
Aaargh, forget my proposition... it is stupid because it needs the
user
to _know_ what hardware he has and fill everything himself. I understand
that a GUI application would have the advantage to be able to
"auto-detect" the hardware and do most of the work for the user.
That said, it could still be done the following way:
- When you click on "report my hardware", a cookie is generated
containing all the information required automatically.
- The website is opened, reads the cookie and pre-fills the form
- The user can modify the defaults choices and validates
The drawback:
- if your navigator is configured to refuse cookies, you're screwed...
This is a non-issue. What about this: App (no GUI) collects
needed info, POSTs that to the website, acquires a session-id,
launches browser with the session-id. BTW, offering the service
at the right time is quite important. Say, when the
hotplug/kudzu/... fails to configure a device, should offer the
user to report that.
behdad