- From: Michael R. Burks <mburks952@worldnet.att.net>
- Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 08:26:03 -0500
- To: "Jon Hanna" <jon@spin.ie>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Seems to me that the user should have the choice of opening it if they so desire. Sincerely, Mike Burks -----Original Message----- From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Jon Hanna Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 8:24 AM To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org Subject: RE: Accessible PDFs > > you are correct, print should not be served from the web but then much > > of print is inaccessible anyway. If you want to serve print from the > > web, make it downloadable instead of viewable. > > How can you stop it being viewed? If the mime type is set then the browser > can try and open it. Content-Disposition headers can state whether a file should be viewed immediately or saved to disk. It can't guarantee this behaviour though, and there are bugs with it in IE4 (fixed in IE5+ IIRC).
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