On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Robin Berjon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 31, 2010, at 01:56 , Darin Fisher wrote: >> The only way to get a FileWriter at the moment is from <input >> type="saveas">. What is desired is a way to simulate the load of a resource >> with Content-Disposition: attachment that would trigger the browser's >> download manager. > > I don't think that <input type=saveas> is a good solution for this, for one > it falls back to a text input control, which is less than ideal. I think that > the File Writer should trigger downloads on an API call since that doesn't > introduce security issues that aren't already there. I'll make a proposal for > that.
Better fallback could be achieved with <button type=saveas></button>. ~TJ
