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threeseed on May 12, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple's FTLJIT project aims to give JavaScript a b...

You know you can set the appropriate header and the file will download correctly ?

You make it sound like this downloading ZIP and other files aren't possible on Safari.

Turing_Machine on May 12, 2014 | [–]

There is no "header" to set when you're downloading a data URL from a Javascript application.

waps on May 12, 2014 | [–]

No, he's saying you can't "download" a ZIP (or any other file type) from a (locally running) javascript app in Safari.

Which is true.

Turing_Machine on May 12, 2014 | [–]

Exactly.

Edit: a simple illustration of the problem.

http://jsfiddle.net/7hK7A/2/

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