Thread: Website programming

Hey,

Can anybody help me program, using Dreamweaver, a dialogue box to pop up on a custom website? I.e. "You're about to download... Open/Save File/Cancel"

Thanks in advance.

Woah, what on earth are you trying to achieve here?
I think a little more detail is required

from the one-liner above, it sounds like you're trying to mimic what browsers already do (Ie. manage file downloads)
This is not a good thing to try to do

if you try to override people's browsers,
1) you won't succeed, you will not be able to support all browsers on all platforms under all circumstances
2) even if you do, you will piss people off by doing it
3) any simple update to a browser could render your mimic worthless

I'm assuming the "open" option means download the file to a temp location and open it in some application local to the user
you cannot do this (not properly anyway)
you can't control what the user does on his machine

seriously, if you want to offer something for download, just use a simple anchor
let the user decide what they want to do with the file

Originally Posted by Ynot

Woah, what on earth are you trying to achieve here?
I think a little more detail is required

from the one-liner above, it sounds like you're trying to mimic what browsers already do (Ie. manage file downloads)
This is not a good thing to try to do

if you try to override people's browsers,
1) you won't succeed, you will not be able to support all browsers on all platforms under all circumstances
2) even if you do, you will piss people off by doing it
3) any simple update to a browser could render your mimic worthless

I'm assuming the "open" option means download the file to a temp location and open it in some application local to the user
you cannot do this (not properly anyway)
you can't control what the user does on his machine

seriously, if you want to offer something for download, just use a simple anchor
let the user decide what they want to do with the file

Oh, ok. I wasn't aware I just had to do that.

So how do you do this?

Attempt to paste the file and link it via html? - But then It'd probably open up through the browser rather than through a dialogue box...

what exactly are you offering to your visitors?

Originally Posted by Ynot

what exactly are you offering to your visitors?

I want to try:

Mp3s, Jpegs and Pdfs.

I think he just wants an automatic browser based download box to come up, but is unsure how to get one to, as opposed to file automatically opening in the browser.

Originally Posted by ClouD

I think he just wants an automatic browser based download box to come up, but is unsure how to get one to, as opposed to file automatically opening in the browser.

Yep.