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By: bradrice

bradrice — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 01:42:57 +0000

Must be as you say. Your examples worked for me. The Audible site must use a javascript to handle the link and download. Thanks for pointing this feature out to me.

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:51:01 +0000

Eek! I put the URL in angle brackets and the link disappeared in the preview. Here it is again, minus the brackets…

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/desktop_diversions/html/link_icons.html

Watch out for wrapped long lines…

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:48:55 +0000

> but it doesn’t when the link is an image.

Yes it does.

Try this page. It may not be a great example, but it does serve to illustrate the point.

The little “–> download” links are each small GIFs. Right click on one of them and “Save Linked File to the Desktop” appears in the top half of the popup menu. Press [option] and it changes to “Save Linked File as…”.

This is an example of a simple link. I wonder if your Audible example - since it’s part of commercial service - has some fancy JavaScript behind the link, or some other jiggery pokery. That might explain why this feature failed in this example.

By: Mumbling Again

Mumbling Again — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:12:39 +0000

Safari vs. Firefox…

I’ve been teeter-tottering back and forth between Safari and Firefox. I’m recently back to Safari since I broke down and bought Saft for the ad blocking ability. By the way, the Panther version doesn’t block ads—I already made that mistake. Ov…

By: bradrice

bradrice — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:50:32 +0000

That works on a hypertext link, but it doesn’t when the link is an image. On audible.com, they have a linked image in your library of downloads. Whenever I use the right click - option as you’ve described, the menu choice is not there. But I tried option clicking and it downloaded to my regular download folder I have in my prefs. It didn’t allow me to pick a folder. I think they still need to work on this. they just need to make it a preference setting, allowing you to choose.

I’ve just recently installed the Web Developer Additions. Seems to be decent in comparison to “Web Developer Tools” for Firefox. It does let me get properties on images and has a lot of nice outlining features. Now I have even more reson to go to Safari as my browser of choice.

By: Gary

Gary — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:51:36 +0000

>I wish Safari … pick a folder to save downloads into

But it does - though to my chagrin, I only discovered this a few months back.

Right click a link to get the pop-up which contains “Download Linked File”. Then press the [option] key and it converts to “Download Linked File As…”. Hey presto!

Similarly, “Save Image To The Desktop” changes to “Save Image As…”.

Neat!