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Posted by hol on 02/16/06 20:50
Hi Jonathan, thanks for the comments,
The problem is that my customer wants the site visitors to be able to
download his CV as a word file. This doesn't happen automatically but only
when a user clicks the appropriate button on the main Flash site. This
button opens an html page that loads the word document. As you can see I
have to go through this procedure.
Take care,
Mark
? "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> ?????? ??? ??????
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> hol wrote:
>> Thanks for all your responce.
>>
>> I did try RvT_PE's suggestion and it was actually my very first try. For
>> some reason, it didn't work. It works with JPGs, Gifs etc but not word
>> documents.
>>
>> Now as far as Adrienne't reply, I understand what you are saying, but
>> there is nothing suspicious behind this method. The site is being built
>> in Flash and when the user clicks a certain button it loads the HTML file
>> that opens the word document. So the user decides whether or not to open
>> it.
>>
>
> Whether or not the user's browser will 'open' a Word document or gives a
> 'Save as' dialog depends on, the user's OS, the user's browser, the user's
> has the application 'Word' and what the user's default handling settings
> are for Word documents. The key work here is 'user' not your coding, in
> fact using your JavaScript method of creating a popup window linked to the
> original document's onload event in a misguided attempt to 'force' the
> document on your visitor's will not work with my Firefox that will block
> the popup!
>
> This is just a bad idea on many levels!
>
> 1. Word documents like many high-level document formats can have embedded
> scripting code that has been frequently use as worm delivery tools, so
> there is a security issue involved here and this type of file should never
> be 'automatically' loaded!
>
> 2. Yes Billy does own most of the world but not ALL of it yet, Word is a
> proprietary document, so again should never be 'automatically' loaded!
>
> 3. Word documents because of their formatting, scripting and proprietary
> format a generally larger (most time many-fold) then plain text or html
> counter parts and are not optimal for general web delivery especially if
> 'automatically' loaded! Not everyone has broadband.
>
> 4. Lastly it is just bad etiquette akin to a tele-marketer's call at
> diner-time. Be polite use a regular link with the file description and
> file size noted
>
> <a href="pricelist.doc">Our Price List in MS Word200 format (1.2 MB)</a>
> or in <a href="pricelist.txt">Our Price List in plain text (10 KB) </a>
>
>
> --
> Take care,
>
> Jonathan
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