[whatwg] "Content-Disposition" property for <a> tags
Boris Zbarsky
bzbarsky at MIT.EDU
Fri Jul 30 19:17:44 PDT 2010
On 7/30/10 9:57 PM, Roger Hågensen wrote:
> <a href="stuff.zip" download>This defaults to application/octet-stream
> and clicking the link will behave as if the user selected Save As from
> UI context menu!</a>
I would object to implementing this. I have no problem putting up a
dialog asking the user whether to save or open in a helper app, but I
see no reason why I should force saving on the user, as a browser
developer. If the user wants to open your zip in a zip reader, why
shouldn't he?
-Boris
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