Re: [whatwg] feedback

[Peter Kasting]

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote:

> In special,
>
> http://www.google.com/**url?sa=t&rct=j&q=l%C3%**
> B6gberg&source=web&cd=**2&ved=0CCwQFjAB&url=**
> http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thingvellir.**is%2Fsaga%2Flogberg%2F&ei=**
> F69ST6T3OM6XOqGOnZEK&usg=**AFQjCNEPLku9Nm5bsA12_**
> oY9mV1gPH3Aeg&cad=rja"
> ...
>
> does not link to 
> http://www.thingvellir.is/**saga/logberg/.
> Google could fix this by linking directly. That, however, would allow for
> opting out of tracking by simply not running scripts.
>

This is an unrelated issue, which  was designed to address.

PK

Re: [whatwg] feedback

[Bjartur Thorlacius]

Þann lau  3.mar 2012 21:30, skrifaði Glenn Maynard:

Another use case: fixing Google's search results.  They're currently
annoyingly broken: [snip]
Yes, Google is broken. But no, "Save As" is not the only thing that it 
breaks.


In special,

href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=l%C3%B6gberg&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCwQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thingvellir.is%2Fsaga%2Flogberg%2F&ei=F69ST6T3OM6XOqGOnZEK&usg=AFQjCNEPLku9Nm5bsA12_oY9mV1gPH3Aeg&cad=rja"; 
...


does not link to http://www.thingvellir.is/saga/logberg/. Google could 
fix this by linking directly. That, however, would allow for opting out 
of tracking by simply not running scripts.

Re: [whatwg] feedback

[Glenn Maynard]

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 "filename" attribute would fix
this: set the Content-Disposition filename without affecting the
disposition type attachment vs. inline).  For example:  .  That would simply set
a default "Content-Disposition: filename" field.

Setting Content-Disposition: attachment should be an attribute orthogonal
to the filename, eg. .  The attachment vs. inline mode is an
orthogonal concept to the default filename, and the "download=filename"
design loses that orthogonality, which I believe is a serious flaw.

This is also an example of why having separate "view" vs. "download" links
is bad.  Google search results shouldn't need separate "download" links to
be able to set the filename, leaving save-as on the main result links
broken.  It should work properly with a single link.

-- 
Glenn Maynard