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Biggest deal here (for me) is the HTML 5 download attribute. Without that you cannot name or provide an extension for files that are triggered for download.

by tbrock 10y ago

icefox 10y ago
Now if we can just get every company that lets you download monthly statements to fill out this field I would be very happy.
eridius 10y ago
The server can do this with the Content-Disposition header. The `download` attribute just lets you trigger downloads (optionally with a filename) for URLs that otherwise wouldn't be downloaded.
- AshleysBrain 10y ago
  It's important to download JS-generated data as well, such as something in a Blob. You can't set a HTTP header on local content. The 'download' attribute lets the user "download" that without having to wastefully post it to a server and back.
  - Turing_Machine 10y ago
    To make what AshleysBrain said a little more concrete, imagine an image editor program (or a music editor, or a word processor, or whatever) that's written completely in client-side JS. There are starting to be a lot of these, actually. Without a working download attribute, the only way to save your work is to post it back to the server and redownload it. That is a slow, ugly, and unsatisfying hack to get data that's actually already present on the local machine. Even IE 11 has a way to do this (non-standard, of course, but it does have a way to do it :-). Edge supports the standard way. As I noted in a different post, though, support for the download attribute has already landed in Webkit Nightly for macOS, and is apparently being worked on for iOS.
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therealmarv 10y ago
Surprised and shocked that this is not already included in Safari. I use the download attribute on some CDN and it would not download with it (tried everything). So today I learned it would not work on actual Safari :(
Turing_Machine 10y ago
That's actually already in the Webkit Nightly for macOS, and the task has been assigned for iOS. So... it's coming.
toyg 10y ago
About freaking time, I've been waiting three years for this...

Biggest deal here (for me) is the HTML 5 download attribute. Without that you cannot name or provide an extension for files that are triggered for download.

by tbrock 10y ago

Biggest deal here (for me) is the HTML 5 download attribute. Without that you cannot name or provide an extension for files that are triggered for download.

icefox 10y ago

Now if we can just get every company that lets you download monthly statements to fill out this field I would be very happy.

eridius 10y ago

The server can do this with the Content-Disposition header. The `download` attribute just lets you trigger downloads (optionally with a filename) for URLs that otherwise wouldn't be downloaded.

AshleysBrain 10y ago
It's important to download JS-generated data as well, such as something in a Blob. You can't set a HTTP header on local content. The 'download' attribute lets the user "download" that without having to wastefully post it to a server and back.
- Turing_Machine 10y ago
  To make what AshleysBrain said a little more concrete, imagine an image editor program (or a music editor, or a word processor, or whatever) that's written completely in client-side JS. There are starting to be a lot of these, actually. Without a working download attribute, the only way to save your work is to post it back to the server and redownload it. That is a slow, ugly, and unsatisfying hack to get data that's actually already present on the local machine. Even IE 11 has a way to do this (non-standard, of course, but it does have a way to do it :-). Edge supports the standard way. As I noted in a different post, though, support for the download attribute has already landed in Webkit Nightly for macOS, and is apparently being worked on for iOS.
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therealmarv 10y ago

Surprised and shocked that this is not already included in Safari. I use the download attribute on some CDN and it would not download with it (tried everything). So today I learned it would not work on actual Safari :(

Turing_Machine 10y ago

That's actually already in the Webkit Nightly for macOS, and the task has been assigned for iOS. So... it's coming.

toyg 10y ago

About freaking time, I've been waiting three years for this...