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
>
> >
>

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