This still isn't working. In theory, if I set the meta data as below:
This should explicitly tell the browser what to call the file but the
file name still comes out as action-name.
Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can prevent this? Perhaps if I
move the "downloadable-report.jsp" file
Yeah windoze still honors extension, but they have added the ability
to make multiple associations. However, if memory serves, IE honors
content-type. So if set it to application/msword or whatever it should
try to launch a word doc viewer. I noticed an example of "the wrong
way" recently while dow
Jim Kiley wrote:
That surprises me, since I had always assumed that Windows based the
application of choice on the file extension. I wonder what other guidance
is being used. Content-type?
AFAIK it's extension in both XP and Vista. Can't check the XP machine
now, but my Vista machine configu
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Dave Newton wrote:
> Jim Kiley wrote:
>
>> Just for fun I just tried it -- made a trivial HTML file, named it
>> "foo.doc," and double-clicked, and it did open in Word. Properly
>> formatted
>> and so on too. Word is happy to open HTML files. It loves you and it
Jim Kiley wrote:
Just for fun I just tried it -- made a trivial HTML file, named it
"foo.doc," and double-clicked, and it did open in Word. Properly formatted
and so on too. Word is happy to open HTML files. It loves you and it wants
you to be happy.
On *your* machine, perhaps. On all my Win
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Dave Newton wrote:
> Jim Collings wrote:
>
>> It's a report and the requirement I'm trying to satisfy is that you
>> have to be able to save it as a MS Word *.doc file. What I've
>> discovered is that you can take a stand-alone html file (i.e. no
>> external files
Jim Collings wrote:
It's a report and the requirement I'm trying to satisfy is that you
have to be able to save it as a MS Word *.doc file. What I've
discovered is that you can take a stand-alone html file (i.e. no
external files like images or CSS etc. ) change the file extension
from *.html to
It's a report and the requirement I'm trying to satisfy is that you
have to be able to save it as a MS Word *.doc file. What I've
discovered is that you can take a stand-alone html file (i.e. no
external files like images or CSS etc. ) change the file extension
from *.html to *.doc and double click
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