- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:51:54 -0800
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Jose Fandos <iaminlondon at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Tim Hutt <tdhutt at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 23 February 2010 18:12, Jose Fandos <iaminlondon at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 2) ?A multipart response with the files as parts, each part having >> >> ? ?"Content-Disposition: attachment". >> > >> > as far as I know, and I could be wrong, this would suffer from what I >> > described in a), i.e. there would be a dialog propping up to accept each >> > downloaded file. >> >> So wouldn't the solution simply be to modify this behaviour? I'm sure >> one could write a patch for at least Firefox and Chrome to detect this >> situation and ask for a destination for all files... > > It definitely would cover our needs, as long as everyone was using one of > those browsers. Only benefit of it being part of the spec is that eventually > it might be supported by every UA out there. As a browser developer, I can tell you that I'm not more likely to implement a certain UI just because it's spelled out in a spec. Browsers implement things that are useful for its users, not because a spec asks nicely. File bugs on browsers. Talk to websites to start using this. If you build it, they will come. / Jonas
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