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Posted by Paul Jones on 10/20/06 10:24
nagasaki mike wrote:
> pardon my ignorance but what do you mean by a 'download button'? why not
> just have a normal link to the mp3, they left-click it says open or save -
> they choose save (or maybe open, who knows how they feel) job done. isnt it?
Well, not really. What we have is a list of 15 tracks each with three
icons to the left. The first is a listen icon (depicted by a
semi-quaver) which plays the song in the same html page - I've now got
this working. The third is a lyrics icon (depicted by a page icon) -
this was never a problem. The second is a save icon (depicted by a
floppy disc icon). This seems nigh-on impossible to implement. As a
result, we've gone for bringing up an alert message when this icon is
clicked, which tells users words to the effect that they have to
right-click to save and will probably now be taken somewhere that we
can't predict and so they will have click the back button on their
browser to get back to what they were doing.
I think the one page solution is the ideal way of dealing with our
requirements and is easier for users to grasp (and keep their place). I
think it's a significant limitation of browsers that this cannot be
achieved without getting unacceptably dirty. I'm not alone here -
google searching shows that there are many people trying to do exactly
what I've been trying to do - all without success. It's amazing that
you can generate all sorts of browser events including a left-click and
a double click, but not a right-click.
Take care,
Paul
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