AFAIK Flash can't save to disk in that manner either. You can build Flash content with free tools though (Adobe Flex 2 SDK, MTASC, haXe, etc.).
-bob On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Per Cederberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Scary stuff. JS in JS... :-) > > I also gave the download issue some thought. Seems it would be > possible to spoof a download in IE and Firefox (with privilege > escalation warning). But not on Safari. And anyway, it would be an > ugly and messy hack. > > So my next thought would be to create something in Flash that could > save a file locally. We can even supply it with the actual text file > content from JS just like Bob explained. Is that doable? I don't have > a license for that stuff and have never worked in Flash myself, so > perhaps I'm just dead wrong here. > > Third option would be to just open a window with the packed text and > ask the user to do Ctrl-S. Perhaps by setting the window title or > something. > > Cheers, > > /Per > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I had intended to build exactly that years ago, but never got around >> to it... mostly because it's hard to do client side and I didn't want >> that feature to be dependent on some server-side script. >> >> My thinking was that we'd keep packed versions of every module (so >> that we could continue to use the Java based packer, instead of >> implementing a JavaScript version)[1] and some client-side could could >> XHR them all down and concatenate them in the correct order, but the >> problem is allowing the user to actually download that text. Using the >> pasteboard would work I guess, but that's not a nice solution. >> >> I suppose we could set something up where the client just does a POST >> to some URL (maybe an app engine service or something) and the server >> simply echos it back with a Content-Disposition header that forces >> download. >> >> [1] But maybe it would be reasonable to write an entirely JS based >> packer with Narcissus >> http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/js/narcissus/ -- are there any >> other projects like this that I'm not aware of? >> >> -bob > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MochiKit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mochikit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
