Hi Jeremy ;) On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 19:24, Jeremy Nickurak <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here's a UI experience pet peeve I'd be curious to hear some feedback > about, especially with regards to whether it's confusing/unintuitive to a > regular user: > > You're in an application, maybe an email client, or an IM conversation, or > (heaven-forbid) a terminal. There's a URL you'd like to click on, that goes > to a PDF, .zip archive, or any other file that's not actually going to be > viewable in a web browser. You click it. > > What should happen? It'd be nice to see the content open up in the correct > application. We have application and content preferences for this sort of > thing. We can look at mime times, in particular. > > What happens? A web browser window opens, with no content, and then the WEB > BROWSER opens the http connection to the content you asked for, and then > downloads it or streams it to another application. > > Is this by design? Or would it make more sense for the desktop to poke the > web server, get the mime-type of the content, and then open the relevant > app? The desktop could even download the content, and continue streaming it > to the application... > > There's a catch that this requires 2 http connections, one to check the > type of the content, and then one to open it. However, I'd argue that this > type of interaction isn't going to be making so many connections that that > would be a bottleneck in any way, or even likely a noticable delay in most > cases (certainly not more than the delay of opening a web browser window). > If it was critical, the double-connection issues could be addressed with a > little clever proxy work... > > Thoughts? > sounds good to me.. to NOT make this an entirely firefox depenent issue, i would suggest to re-integrate epiphany. That way, we would have more flexibility on whether or not to open an extra app window or not for such an operation.
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