On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalm...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Optimizing for the user choosing to right-click=>Save seems like a > much more niche case than linking to a file that should be downloaded. > > Plus, you could address it by just wrapping the <img> in an <a>: > > <a href=uglyurl.jpg download=prettyurl.jpg><img src=uglyurl.jpg></a> > I don't want to turn my images into links--and in some cases the images are already links to something else, or use click for other site UI. A similar and probably more common use case is links to files which can be viewed usefully in the browser, and are also often saved to disk; very frequently PDFs. Using <a href=ugly.pdf download=pretty.pdf> would obstruct users who want to view the link in the browser. I don't feel very strongly about this, and download=filename is clean and straightforward, but we should at least consider the use cases of specifying a filename without implying C-D: attachment. -- Glenn Maynard
