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> if your browser auto-downloads the PDF then … you have a browser that can't itself show PDFs …. Surely a browser that shows PDFs itself downloads them in ord
by JadeNB 10y ago
> if your browser auto-downloads the PDF then … you have a browser that can't itself show PDFs ….
Surely a browser that shows PDFs itself downloads them in order to do so? (I don't know for sure what was bothering anw, but I'm often on a limited data connection, and, whether the PDF is displayed in my browser or dropped in the download folder, it hits my data allowance the same.)
- eriknstr 10y agoOf course it must be downloaded in order to display it. Obviously what I mean is that since they point out "auto-download" specifically I would think that they mean that it's saved to disk in your Downloads folder. Why this should be a problem somehow you'll have to ask them not me. If they file size was the concern, they would have said so. There are a lot of web pages that weigh in at more bytes than this PDF these days with all of their images and scripts and god-knows-what.
- tedunangst 10y agoIf a 100K download is of great concern, it's probably best not to click any link on HN. There are pages that have style sheets bigger than that.