[whatwg] <a download> feedback

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Thu Jun 7 16:33:22 PDT 2012


On Sat, 3 Mar 2012, Glenn Maynard wrote:
>
> Another use case: fixing Google's search results.  They're currently 
> annoyingly broken: "save link as" on a result link in Firefox offers a 
> useless default filename of "url.htm".

The right solution to this is <a ping>. That would solve lots of other 
problems too, e.g. "copy link location".

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