[tw5] Re: How does this macro work to download a binary file?

2018-07-21 Thread leeand00
Oh so I'm barking up the wrong tree! Thanks for clearing that up. I wasn't aware of that. On Friday, 20 July 2018 02:50:23 UTC-4, Jed Carty wrote: > > It isn't a tiddlywiki thing, that is just how anchor tags work. I imagine > that MDN or W3C has some information about it. > >

[tw5] Re: How does this macro work to download a binary file?

2018-07-20 Thread Jed Carty
It isn't a tiddlywiki thing, that is just how anchor tags work. I imagine that MDN or W3C has some information about it. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_HTTP/Data_URIs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group.

[tw5] Re: How does this macro work to download a binary file?

2018-07-20 Thread leeand00
So, ;,]addsuffix{ }] }}} download=""> is what it really means? Am I correct? On Saturday, 14 July 2018 12:03:50 UTC-4, Jed Carty wrote: > > One way browsers get around handling incompatible data types is to convert > them into a base 64 representation that uses only basic ascii characters.

[tw5] Re: How does this macro work to download a binary file?

2018-07-14 Thread Jed Carty
One way browsers get around handling incompatible data types is to convert them into a base 64 representation that uses only basic ascii characters. Tiddlywiki encodes non-text tiddlers in the same way. Browsers can, give the correct mime type, treat the base64 encoded string as though it were