[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 64580] Add support for download='filename' in anchors

Fri Jul 22 19:55:41 PDT 2011

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64580

Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> changed:

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--- Comment #55 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian at hixie.ch>  2011-07-22 19:55:41 PST ---
The activation behaviour is irrelevant for synthetic click events, since the activation behaviour only runs for UA-created click events (either from real clicks, or from the click() method).

I do not think that Web pages should be able to trigger downloads automatically using any kind of server, cooperative or otherwise. A navigation that triggers a fetch that is treated "as a download" (to use the new spec terminology) should IMHO not automatically result in a file being stored on the user's machine. (Those pages that use meta refreshes for downloads drive me crazy. Just let me download the file from the earlier page, don't show me a separate HTML page and trigger the download from there. Gah.)

But I'm probably in the minority. If you are going to allow the click() method to trigger the download as well, then let me know and I'll make honouring it in that case optional instead of disallowed.

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