On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 08:00:23PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Simon Porter (hailstormxp at fairadsl.co.uk) wrote: > > > I think what Ian was getting at was to have something pop up to download > > your file while keeping you on the same Freesite. This way it would be > > familiar to how users normally download files. > > *Some* users. ;-) > > But yes, I do understand. He wants it to be comfortable for Windows > users. I don't have a problem with that -- just with the notion > that something comfortable for a Windows user is going to be "better" > than something that's comfortable for a hardcore Unix geek. No, most browsers will ask you where to save, then open a "download" window, if you click on a link to a file with an unknown MIME type, when in a web page, regardless of which OS you are using. > > So long as it works when Javascript is disabled, I don't care. > > -- > Greg Wooledge | "Truth belongs to everybody." > greg at wooledge.org | - The Red Hot Chili Peppers > http://wooledge.org/~greg/ |
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