[Discuss] Yet another reason why Internet Explorer is bad....

[Alien Torres]

Adam Parkin escribió:
> Okay, I know this is preaching to the choir as I'm sure that 100% of 
> VLUG readers don't use Internet Explorer as their browser, but I'm 
> justifying this mini-rant as a "sharing info that perhaps we should be 
> aware of".
>
> I'm the TA for CSC 212 this term at UVic and for the course students 
> need to grab a Java jar file from the course website, download it to 
> their lab machine and run the software.
>
> I figured no biggie, just put a link to the jar file on the course 
> website, and when students click the link they get the "Open or Save 
> As" dialog.  In Firefox this of course works as it should, when the 
> user clicks Save As, it saves a copy of the jar file to their local 
> machine.
>
> In IE however, it realizes that a Jar file is just a Zip file in 
> disguise, and *automatically renames the file* to become a zip file 
> instead.  Thus, then what happens is students get a zip file on their 
> desktop instead of a Java jar file, and when double-clicking it they 
> get the standard compressed file viewer in Windows instead of running 
> the actual software creating confusion as to why the software won't 
> work as it should.
>
> In what possible way could a browser automatically renaming a file 
> that the user has asked to download be a good idea?  In the Windows 
> world of file extensions determining a file's type this completely 
> changes the meaning of what the file is and how it's handled.  Recall 
> as well that by default Windows will hide file extensions from the 
> user, so there's no way for users to fix the problem unless they go 
> into Windows Explorer's options and turn on "Show File Extensions" 
> (which any decent user *should* do, but of course the default is what 
> ACTUALLY happens in  most cases).  Even then they still need to know 
> that the file should be renamed to have an extension of jar and not zip.
>
> Horribly, horribly poor design decision by MS.
>
> Note: this was tested in IE 7 as that's what's installed in the UVic 
> labs, and the only version on my office machine.  Don't know if prior 
> versions do the same thing.
Thanks u...

In the other Hand something similar happen when u are configuring for 
example GOSA(LDAP WebFrontEnd) and Gosa give u in the final step the 
gosa.conf with internet explorer u can't save de gosa.conf because IE 
analize the file and open like XML stuff... is funny because Firefox 
always ask u about if u want to save de file....


Funny IE hahahaha



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