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.
> -----Original Message----- > From: devl-admin at freenetproject.org [mailto:devl-admin at freenetproject.org] > On Behalf Of Roger Hayter > Sent: 21 December 2002 00:44 > To: devl at freenetproject.org > Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] Re: SplitFile UI Redux (Was: Re: [freenet-dev] > SplitFileRequestServlet > > In message <20021221000103.GB26473 at pegasus.wooledge.org>, Greg Wooledge > <greg at wooledge.org> writes > >Ian Clarke (ian at freenetproject.org) wrote: > > > >> Javascript allows us to make the user > >> interface better than we otherwise could, > > > >I don't think this statement stands on its own. I fail to see how > >an annoying popup window is "better" than having the information > >presented inside the browser tab/window that I (the user) have > >specifically put aside for this purpose. > > Precisely. When I suggested further up the thread that we ask the user > to choose to open a new browser window by voluntarily using the > browser's *user* interface, the reply was something to the effect of; "I > don't see how we can automate the user's hand and make him/her do that > without some form of scripting"! Surely people know whether they want > to keep one window open and open another, without java to do the > thinking for them! > > > > > > >Then again, I may not be a typical Freenet user. I turn off > >Javascript in my web browers, completely, as my normal state of > >operation. > > > >Or, on the other hand, I might be well within the norm for the > >Freenet user population. We are, after all, a cantankerous, paranoid > >bunch. I'm sure I'm not the only Javascript hater in Freenetland. > > > > -- > Roger Hayter > > _______________________________________________ > devl mailing list > devl at freenetproject.org > http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
