[whatwg] "Content-Disposition" property for <a> tags

[Roger Hågensen]

On 2010-07-30 20:54, 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
>    

Now something like that is a bit more tricky, but can't Javascript 
actually trigger a proper Save As?
Something like <a href="#" onclick="*javascript*: 
document.execCommand('Save As','1','saveMe.csv');"><img 
src="./images/*save*.png"></a>

Should in theory work, but I think browser support for that is spotty, 
so the solution to that stackoverflow post either lies in deep 
Javascript vodoo.
Or make a suggestion to the Javascript "folks" would be better? In any 
case a download attribute would only improve such a functionality (if 
javascript support it) even further by displaying the proper UI.

-- 
Roger "Rescator" Hågensen.
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