Bug #1254
In Safari, downloading 'Save File' link doesn't do anything
| Status: | In Progress | Start date: | 2015-05-29 | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: | - | % Done: | 0% | |
| Category: | - | |||
| Target version: | - |
Description
At the end of the test, clicking 'Save file' opens the XML file or (in older versions of Safari?) an illegible and useless blob of text. Right-clicking and downloading (or 'downloading as') doesn't work - the file simply doesn't appear where you allegedly downloaded it. The only way I find it works is by opening in a new tab (or in-place probably), then saving as 'page source' (not 'web archive') and then typing a file name with the .xml extension.
Works fine in Chrome: clicking automatically downloads the file.
History
#1
Updated by Nicholas Jillings over 9 years ago
- Status changed from New to In Progress
Safari does not support the HTML5 download attribute on <a> hyperlinking tags. Therefore it cannot behave the same way chrome does. See http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_download.asp for more details.
Chrome has the default behaviour that when it detects a non HTML file it will assume it is for download, Safari does not make this assumption either which is doubly annoying.