Re: [FileAPI] Blob.URN?

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.

Why not simply allow FileWriters be instantiated using:

x = new FileWriter;

And then make every call to .write open up the save as dialog.

/ Jonas

Received on Wednesday, 31 March 2010 21:41:05 UTC