- From: Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:15:24 +0000
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 21:27 +0000, Jose Fandos 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. > I still don't think it's part of any html spec, but the http protocol. Just because a web browser will typically be the UA dealing with it does not necessarily mean it's something that should be dealt with in an html spec. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20100223/3fbfa320/attachment.htm>
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