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Suggestion: specifying download

From: Aaron Bentley <aaron_bentley@email.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 01:22:50 -0400
Message-ID: <3B284A2A.58835D41@email.com>
To: www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org
If I may humbly propose, a show: attribute that would be of considerable
value is show="store".
Presently, there are situations where resources should be downloaded,
contrary to standard browser behavior.  In situations like that, the web
master must either instruct users to "right click and Save Target As" or
hide the true nature of the file by storing it in an archival format
(e.g. zip, tar).

A show="store" attribute would allow a webmaster to choose an
appropriate default for unsophisticated users, while allowing advanced
users to override the webmaster's choice.

Aaron

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Received on Thursday, 14 June 2001 01:23:22 GMT

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