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Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 02/16/06 21:35
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, hol wrote:
> The problem is that my customer wants the site visitors to be able to
> download his CV as a word file.
Then offer a straightforward link to the wretched thing from the web
page (with a helpful note saying what format it's in), and leave the
visitors to do whatever they do with such content.
> This doesn't happen automatically
We certainly hope not!
> but only when a user clicks the appropriate button on the main Flash
> site.
Eh? Have you totally lost the concept of "web site"?
> This button opens an html page
Why aren't we on an HTML page to start with? This is getting
increasingly silly.
> that loads the word document.
HTML is structured markup, it doesn't "load" anything: include a link
to the wretched document: make sure that your server knows the correct
content-type to send it out with, so that any www-compatible browser
can handle it, leaving the "operating system component that thinks
it's a web browser" to do its own thing as usual.
It's all very straightforward for the user, just so long as you don't
keep re-inventing perverse ways of doing things that the web has been
doing without fuss since its early days.
> As you can see I have to go through this procedure.
As we can see, you don't know how to use Usenet either.
[upside-down quotage snipped.]
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