In article <f7f9420f57.r...@user.minijem.plus.com>, Richard Porter <r...@minijem.plus.com> wrote: > On 28 Jun 2018 Jim Nagel wrote:
> > When you click the link for a Jpeg (or various other types of file), > > the file opens immediately. Why does PDF behave differently? What > > is the mechanism involved? > I think that offering a save dialogue is the norm. Netsurf processes > JPEG, GIF and PNG files itself, plus html and text of course, so > there's no need to save them. It's easy to think NetSurf really ought to have to option to Filer_Run any file it doesn't understand after downloading it but it doesn't; it leaves you to do that which is fine up to a point but a shame because it prevents sound and video playing from a link, just as it makes you open your downloaded PDFs 'manually'. I'm expecting to find a utility somewhere which will monitor a specific folder and filer_run anything saved there but having no luck so far. -- Tim Hill timil.com : tjrh.eu : butterwick.eu : blue-bike.uk : youngtheatre.co.uk
