On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 08:00:23PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Simon Porter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 
> > I think what Ian was getting at was to have something pop up to download
> > your file while keeping you on the same Freesite. This way it would be
> > familiar to how users normally download files.
> 
> *Some* users. ;-)
> 
> But yes, I do understand.  He wants it to be comfortable for Windows
> users.  I don't have a problem with that -- just with the notion
> that something comfortable for a Windows user is going to be "better"
> than something that's comfortable for a hardcore Unix geek.
No, most browsers will ask you where to save, then open a "download"
window, if you click on a link to a file with an unknown MIME type, when
in a web page, regardless of which OS you are using.
> 
> So long as it works when Javascript is disabled, I don't care.
> 
> -- 
> Greg Wooledge                  |   "Truth belongs to everybody."
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