- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:09:32 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Dennis Joachimsthaler wrote: > > Having a Content-Disposition property on <a> tags which does the same as > the HTTP Header. For example changing the file name of the file to be > downloaded or rather have a image file download rather than it being > shown in the browser directly. > > This would avoid constructs such as <a href="hi">Download</a> (Right > click and click save target as... to download). > > It would also eliminate the need to handle such requests with a server > side scripting engine to change the headers dynamically to enforce > downloading of the content. On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Eduard Pascual wrote: > > Let me complement the proposal with a use case: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3358209/triggering-a-file-download-without-any-server-request This seems like a fine idea. I would recommend registering a new "rel" type (marked as a "Hyperlink Annotation") and trying to get browsers to implement it: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#Is_there_a_process_for_adding_new_features_to_a_specification.3F http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/links.html#other-link-types -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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