On Mar 14, 2020, at 8:45 PM, Christopher Finazzo <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> 
> When checking the syntax of my document, I am getting validator warnings that 
> the syntax of my download links is incorrect. BBEdit tells me that the 
> download attribute requires a value inside the anchor, but the W3C's Nu 
> checker has no such complaints.

This is from he HTML spec at whatwg.org <http://whatwg.org/>:

> The download attribute, if present, indicates that the author intends the 
> hyperlink to be used for downloading a resource 
> <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/links.html#downloading-hyperlinks>. 
> The attribute may have a value; the value, if any, specifies the default file 
> name that the author recommends for use in labeling the resource in a local 
> file system. There are no restrictions on allowed values, but authors are 
> cautioned that most file systems have limitations with regard to what 
> punctuation is supported in file names, and user agents are likely to adjust 
> file names accordingly.

and
> In some cases, resources are intended for later use rather than immediate 
> viewing. To indicate that a resource is intended to be downloaded for use 
> later, rather than immediately used, the download 
> <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/links.html#attr-hyperlink-download> 
> attribute can be specified on the a 
> <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-a-element>
>  or area 
> <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/image-maps.html#the-area-element> 
> element that creates the hyperlink 
> <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/links.html#hyperlink> to that 
> resource.
> 
> The attribute can furthermore be given a value, to specify the file name that 
> user agents are to use when storing the resource in a file system. This value 
> can be overridden by the `Content-Disposition 
> <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6266>` HTTP header's filename parameters. 
> [RFC6266] <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/references.html#refsRFC6266>

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