68404 - W3C CUAP: Retrieve Web resources even if browser can't render

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

[ This bug is one of the recommendations in the W3C's "Common User Agent 
Problems" document, URL above. One bug has been filed on each recommendation, 
for deciding whether we do it and, if not, whether we should. ]

1.3 Allow the user to retrieve Web resources even if the browser cannot
render them.

     User agents may not be able to render certain types of content on the
     Web either natively or through a plug-in (e.g., XML content, XSLT
     style sheets, RDF documents, DTDs, XML schemas, etc). User agents
     should allow users to retrieve and save these resources, otherwise
     users may not be able to access this Web content at all.

Comment 1

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

This should probably be a meta bug. If there are any kinds of document which 
Mozilla does not allow you to save or pick an application for, file them as bugs 
depending on this bug.

Comment 2

[benc]

mass move, v2.
qa to me.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

I think we pop a Download dialog for anything we can't recognise, so this is
WORKSFORME.

Gerv

Comment 4

[benc]

reporter:

This bug is a "futured" or "untargeted" bug which has been "resolved/works for
me". Most bugs meeting this criteria are usually somewhat out of date or working
in the current builds.

If this bug is not happening for you in a recent build (such as the Mozilla
daily build, Mozilla 0.9.3, or Netscape 6.1), please use the friendly "Mark bugs
as VERIFIED" radio button to set this bug to "VERIFIED/WORKS FOR ME"
If you reported the bug on a platform (e.g. Linux) and other contributors
reported on another platform (e.g. Mac OS), please comment that it works for you
 but do not verify it yet.

For these multi-platform bug reports, we need to verify all reported platforms
-OR- create new "still broken on platform X" bugs when you verify.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Verified.