Posted by Captain Dondo on 06/07/05 19:08

(Apologies to those who also monitor c.l.javascript; this is being
multi-posted)

I'm searching for the most 'elegant' way to do this:

I pop up a window with a picture in it. The picture is a Thumbnail for
the full-size digital image. The fullsize digital image is too big to
fit on a typical user's screen.

What I would like is to prevent the browser (any browser, I know I have
to support IE, FireFox, and Mac-Safari at a minimum) from opening this
jpeg image in a new window, and instead ask the user if s/he wants to
save the file.... Doable? I guess what I am trying to do is turn off
the automatic mime-type handling for this one operation.....

Failing that, I am looking for the most elegant way of handling this.
I really don't want users to get a window that is 2 or 3 times their
screen size, just to save the file.....

Any thoughts?

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