- From: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:43:45 -0400
2011/7/15 Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc> > It definitely is an interesting usecase that Glenn brought up about > being able to specify a save-as name without otherwise modifying the > behavior of a reference. However that seems like a much more rare > usecase and so not the one we should optimize for. > Bear in mind that "optimize for" doesn't mean "support at all"; if download=filename is used, it seems unlikely that there will ever be *any* client-side way to supply the filename without implying attachment, which is a very different thing than "not optimizing for it". I don't feel strongly enough about this to press it further, but <a href=ugly download filename=pretty> also seems fairly clean, and avoids combining parameters that really are orthogonal to one another. -- Glenn Maynard
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