[whatwg] "Content-Disposition" property for <a> tags
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Wed Aug 25 12:09:32 PDT 2010
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Dennis Joachimsthaler wrote:
>
> Having a Content-Disposition property on <a> tags which does the same as
> the HTTP Header. For example changing the file name of the file to be
> downloaded or rather have a image file download rather than it being
> shown in the browser directly.
>
> This would avoid constructs such as <a href="hi">Download</a> (Right
> click and click save target as... to download).
>
> It would also eliminate the need to handle such requests with a server
> side scripting engine to change the headers dynamically to enforce
> downloading of the content.
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Eduard Pascual wrote:
>
> Let me complement the proposal with a use case:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3358209/triggering-a-file-download-without-any-server-request
This seems like a fine idea. I would recommend registering a new "rel"
type (marked as a "Hyperlink Annotation") and trying to get browsers to
implement it:
http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#Is_there_a_process_for_adding_new_features_to_a_specification.3F
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/links.html#other-link-types
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