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

[Boris Zbarsky]

On 6/3/11 2:58 PM, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote:
> On 6/3/11, Boris Zbarsky<bzbarsky at mit.edu>  wrote:
>> On 6/3/11 11:46 AM, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote:
>>>> Note that some browsers will do weird parsing of the query params to
>>>> attempt to extract a "useful filename".  That seems strictly worse than
>>>> just using Content-Disposition.
>>>>
>>> That's slightly better than just using the last non-empty path
>>> component, though.
>>
>> It's not, because they're not consistent about it...
>>
> Why need they be? This isn't Bittorrent. Use the last non-empty path
> component for a short name prone to accidental clashes, or the title
> for a verbose, unportable and descriptive name. It's purely a hint for
> user convenience (so they don't have to invent their own names or
> retype the title). What a file is named on a client's machine is
> purely the client's matter.

I think you completely misunderstood my mail...  the point is that 
browses do NOT all use the last non-empty path component; some try to 
guess a filename based on the query params, in various ways.

-Boris