As far I can see, no one has started a thread on this, so I’ll do it.
I really like the Unity web player, and want to see it more broadly adopted.
However, with a silent, non-interactive install, I see the following issues:
Corporate policy rejection
Antivirus software rejection
User rejection, (having a way to stealth install an executable into a user system is basically having a backdoor)
These could become a barrier to adoption.
Flash at least has a warning whenever it’s going to update. Thoughts?
I have to agree, the majority of people tend to like silent upgrades more than interactive upgrades. Chrome decided to take that approach and it works great.
However, you bring up a good point about the antivirus reporting. That said, I don’t think any antivirus software detects it as a threat yet, so we’re in the clear.
Ah, I didn’t know Chrome had switched to silent installs. As it is now, nearly everything else provides notifications before updating; if silent installs becomes an accepted norm, I guess that will take care of user acceptance.
Flash is allowed actually. They have quite a number of training materials and websites in Flash.
I am pretty much against silent updates! Here are some links to posts explaining my position against them in the “Open testing of the Unity 3.4 webplayer” thread:
