- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:58:17 -0700
- To: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>
- Cc: Darin Fisher <darin@chromium.org>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Michael Nordman <michaeln@google.com>, Web Applications Working Group WG <public-webapps@w3.org>, Eric Uhrhane <ericu@google.com>
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com> wrote: > On Mar 31, 2010, at 01:56 , Darin Fisher wrote: >> The only way to get a FileWriter at the moment is from <input type="saveas">. What is desired is a way to simulate the load of a resource with Content-Disposition: attachment that would trigger the browser's download manager. > > I don't think that <input type=saveas> is a good solution for this, for one it falls back to a text input control, which is less than ideal. I think that the File Writer should trigger downloads on an API call since that doesn't introduce security issues that aren't already there. I'll make a proposal for that. Better fallback could be achieved with <button type=saveas></button>. ~TJ
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