Might it be possible to ask the user, "hey, this is a large [file
size] file, are you sure you want to display it in the browser versus
transferring it to the Downloads window"? It would appear that the
instances of people really wanting to viewing large text or html
files dwarfs the number of people who just want it saved somewhere.
-Peter
On Nov 16, 2005, at 1:10 PM, paulc wrote:
Remember back when we had a big discussion about dmg data "loading"
into the browser window instead of being treated as a file? Without
re-iterating all that discussion, I recall that a special case was
built into Camino. Since that time, it functioned properly.
Well, I just did a major OS upgrade from Jaguar to Tiger 4.3. While
everything seems fine, we have a major problem here. Not only does
the it revert to the "bad" behavior, but it's way worse. While data
is filling the browser window, Camino sports the spinning multi-
colored wheel. Meaning the browser is essentially dead to the world
until the d/l is finished. Even worse, it seems that the "progress"
is excruciatingly slow. I just got a 2.3MB dmg that took about
20-30 minutes (I'm on a 5Mb/s broadband connection).
A good part of the problem is that one rarely finds an "in the
clear" link, so no possibility of doing an "option-click" to d/l as
a file (i.e. versiontracker and macgamefiles each predsent sopme
php to the user; thus a process on their server re-directs to the
actual file).
Anyone? This is a major problem...
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