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Posted by Rob McAninch on 01/08/06 09:20
Jose <teacherjh@aol.nojunk.com> wrote in
<news:ZXRvf.1443$PG.1304@newssvr31.news.prodigy.com> :
Jose, if you can, get your newsreader to attribute quotes to the
person that made them as you see above and the one I added below.
It's just standard practice.
> Alan J. Flavell wrote:
>> When a web site offers me a PDF file, it's entirely *my*
>> choice [...]
Here's a fairly recent article.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/open_new_windows.html
He actually encourages new window use. Of course he does say "Best
of all, *prevent the browser from opening the document* in the
first place."
The content-disposition headers are mentioned. Those are sent from
the server when a PDF is requested. While it does prevent someone
from using the Acrobat plugin, I agree with Nielsen in this case,
in that it improves usability.
I've personally closed the browser window after following a PDF
link (and closed several tabs with it. Grrr.)
> That's not how Netscape 7.2 works.
You should be able to de-install the Adobe plugin and add Acrobat
as a helper application. That should allow you to open it in a
separate application. I typically save the PDF and open it
locally. Even with a 256kbs DSL some large PDFs are slow over the
network.
> Interestingly, an excel file opens Excel if browsed from
> Netscape, but it opens from within an IE window by default,
> which means that some viewers are stuck with browser chrome,
> and others are not.
Gotta love that M$ integration... ;-) Most MS Office documents
open within IE, AFAIK. I'm wondering if IE will obey a content-
disposition header for an Office document.
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Rob McAninch
http://rock13.com
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