Dennis, The "save target as" option allows you to save the item that you'd get to from that link without clicking on the link. There are times when it's desirable. I wish I could give you the example I encountered this morning, but the website requires a username and password.
I've yet to download any files while using Chrome. Your observation is interesting, and I certainly haven't encountered path information like that with IE or FF. -----Original Message----- From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dennis Clark via Jfw Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 10:43 AM To: The Jaws for Windows support list. Cc: Dennis Clark Subject: Re: Chrome and "save target as" Hi Adrian, I'm not clear what you are trying to download when you say the "target of a link." I tend to think of a link as including the path to a file followed by the name of the file. So are you wanting to download the "text" of the path and filename which will be saved as a link in a particular location? I am curious if you have noticed all the contents of the Chrome download folder. It appears that when a file is downloaded, the URL where the file was downloaded from is also saved and listed immediately below the file. Perhaps this is also done by other browsers, though my versions of IE and Firefox don't, but both are quite old. Best, Dennis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian Spratt via Jfw" <[email protected]> To: "The Jaws for Windows support list." <[email protected]> Cc: "Adrian Spratt" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 6:06 AM Subject: RE: Chrome and "save target as" > True. But there are times when the download link can create problems. I > wish I could give the link I encountered this morning as an example, but > it's a password-protected, members-only website. that "save target as" > option in the right mouse click menu has saved my bacon many times. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ann Byrne > via Jfw > Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 8:24 AM > To: The Jaws for Windows support list. > Cc: Ann Byrne > Subject: Re: Chrome and "save target as" > > When you download with chrome--that is, press enter on the download > link--Chrome doesn't indicate that a file is downloading. Control-j > will tell you that it is, though. > At 05:19 AM 11/11/2015, you wrote: >>Now I've just encountered a situation where I wanted to save the >>target of a link to my downloads folder. Both IE and Firefox have >>this feature. I can't find any sign of it in Chrome. The right-mouse >>and application keys produce nothing. Any ideas? >>-------------- next part -------------- >>An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >>URL: >><http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/20151111/ed3a9b44/attachment.html> >>_______________________________________________ >>Jfw mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
