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From: Chris Ridd on 23 Jul 2010 10:18
On 2010-07-23 13:33:34 +0100, Justin C said:

> On 2010-07-23, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:
>> On 2010-07-23 09:48:04 +0100, Justin C said:
>>
>>> ummm.... I know nothing of DOMs, I know what DOM stands for but that
>>> doesn't mean much to me. The page is straight HTML generated by perl
>>> CGI. The perl takes a list of files and puts them in a table, with an
>>> icon for the file-type, and links to the file so that it can be
>>> downloaded.
>>>
>>> Could you explain further what it is that you want to know?
>>
>> DOM is how the page is structured inside the browser. It obviously
>> *starts* as the stuff coming from your website, but could get altered
>> subsequently by any number of things. So what I'm wondering is, is
>> anything in the browser transmogrifying the page contents in any way?
>>
>> If you open Safari's web inspector window you might get some more info.
>
> Wow, what an interesting thing that is!

Yes, it is lots of fun. The resource graph screen is rather helpful
when determining how a site is "slow".

> I can't spot anything untoward in there. Comparing the 'view source'
> shown by Safari, Lynx and Firefox there is no difference... hmmm,
> interesting.... Lynx displays the text too.... Firefox? ... Firefox
> offers to save the file or "open with...". I suppose that Lynx displays
> it because it is just text.
>
> I'm not convinced that this isn't a Safari problem, rather than the
> file.

I suspect you're right.

--
Chris

From: David Pitt on 23 Jul 2010 11:54
Justin C <justin.1007(a)purestblue.com> wrote:

> On 2010-07-22, David Pitt <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:

[snip csv downloading]

> > Or put another way, I cannot persuade Safari to download cvs as a file
> > either.
>
> Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid. Which apple dev thought that we'd want to
> view csv in Safari?! A numpty of the highest order.

It is not too helpful, the one place one would not want a csv file is in a
web browser window.

Googling around finds one way to force a download is with a PHP script and a
Content-disposition header. My PlusNet website does not have PHP enabled by
default so that is me stopped for now.

--
David Pitt
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