- From: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:03:21 +0100
- To: Charles McCathie Nevile <chaals@yandex-team.ru>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
On 04/01/2013 04:14 , Charles McCathie Nevile wrote: > An author is expected to know whether I would prefer to download a > resource or simply open it normally. This strikes me as unlikely. I don't think so. Obviously this could be used stupidly, but that would just cause the site to shoot itself in the foot so I doubt it will be used overly poorly. The default situation is that activating a link follows it, and users have an option to download it instead. This just reverses the situation. As an author-driven way of specifying a different default behaviour it is exactly similar to target=_blank except that _blank is used annoyingly wrongly altogether too often whereas I'm pretty sure that that won't be the case for @download. In fact @download can be seen as just target=_download with the ability to specify the file name. -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
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