On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 22:50 -0500, Brian Campbell wrote: > On Feb 23, 2010, at 6:02 PM, And Clover wrote: > > > Boris Zbarsky wrote: > > > >> or fixing UAs to only prompt once, to inventing yet another package format > >> here. > > > > I'd go further: why not just give UAs an option to decompress a ZIP archive > > (or potentially other recognised archive format) to multiple files (or a > > folder containing them)? > > Some UAs already have this feature. In Safari, if you have the 'Open "safe" > files after downloading' option enabled (I believe it's enabled by default, > though I usually leave it disabled because there have been a few exploits > contained in supposedly "safe" files), it will unpack your ZIP or .tar.gz > archives, and delete the archive leaving only the resulting folder. > > > This would require no standards work and would be of general utility for > > all existing file downloads (I'd certainly be happy to shed a few clicks > > from the ZIP download-open-extract-delete shuffle). > > Yep, there's nothing stopping browsers from implementing this, and there are > already browser that do it. It's just a matter of encouraging other browser > vendors to follow suit. > > -- Brain
Ideally I guess then, the browsers would support .tar.gz files as these give much better compression than .zip. Unfortunately, that's probably unlikely to happen this decade with a certain browser made by a company that is known for trying to get developers to do things their way... Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
