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On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 22:50 -0500, Brian Campbell wrote:
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On Feb 23, 2010, at 6:02 PM, And Clover wrote:
> Boris Zbarsky wrote:
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>> or fixing UAs to only prompt once, to inventing yet another package format here.
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> I'd go further: why not just give UAs an option to decompress a ZIP archive (or potentially other recognised archive format) to multiple files (or a folder containing them)?
Some UAs already have this feature. In Safari, if you have the 'Open "safe" files after downloading' option enabled (I believe it's enabled by default, though I usually leave it disabled because there have been a few exploits contained in supposedly "safe" files), it will unpack your ZIP or .tar.gz archives, and delete the archive leaving only the resulting folder.
> This would require no standards work and would be of general utility for all existing file downloads (I'd certainly be happy to shed a few clicks from the ZIP download-open-extract-delete shuffle).
Yep, there's nothing stopping browsers from implementing this, and there are already browser that do it. It's just a matter of encouraging other browser vendors to follow suit.
-- Brain
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Ideally I guess then, the browsers would support .tar.gz files as these give much better compression than .zip. Unfortunately, that's probably unlikely to happen this decade with a certain browser made by a company that is known for trying to get developers to do things their way...<BR>
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Thanks,<BR>
Ash<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk">http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk</A><BR>
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