On 07.12.2010 18:51, Dennis Joachimsthaler wrote:
Am 07.12.2010, 10:13 Uhr, schrieb Julian Reschke <[email protected]>:
It would be great if those scripts could just get fixed.
Do you actually think that would HAPPEN? I think not. Better have people
get
rid of them entirely. Though that wouldn't happen either.
I'm still all for such a property in <a hrefs>. I personally hate writing
scripts to do something so simple.
I think we could name it declaration of content. Why should HTTP, the
protocol
underlying the HTML language, have to take care of declaration of content?
Shouldn't the HTML file itself have the power over that? We have a lot
of that
already, like content types, etc. But we can not yet declarate content
which is MEANT for downloading to your hard drive.
This is a big hole in my opinion.
> ...
I'm not against adding this in principle; but it shouldn't keep us from
improving the situation for what's already there.
Having multiple ways to do the same thing causes real cost; you need to
explain when to use what, and define which information takes priority.
Also; be sure to replicate what's needed from C-D, namely the filename
information.
Has it ever been considered to use target="_download" (just made up) for
this?
Best regards, Julian
