Proposed anchor target attribute _download

Several web-browsers try to render content such as images when a hyperlink points to an image resource, even when the intent of the site author was for it to be downloaded by the browser, this often leads to instructions such as: "Left click the link and chose save as target"(IE), which while understood to mean "save linked file as" is:
1. Inconsistent across browsers.
2. Inconvenient, when it should always be that said link results in a download, rather than the browser displaying the file.

Therefore I propose adding 
<a href="imageOrOtherResource.jpg" target="_download">
To indicate that the browser should download the file only and not attempt to display it.

Received on Thursday, 3 January 2013 09:00:41 UTC