posted 13 years ago
I know *how* to do this but I'm looking for suggestions on how to improve the user experience. I have a list of products and each product has 1 or more downloads associated to them. The client wants the downloads to be displayed in a select list and then on the click of a button, download the content. The reason it is set up this way is because there is some pre-download stamping that must occur on the product.
So generally what I do is use JavaScript to open a new tiny window that sends a get request back to the server which then responds with binary data which triggers the browser's Save As dialog. This seems clunky, but works. I'm looking for suggestions on making this a bit more user friendly? More streamlined within the application. Possibly without using a popup window? I might try an iframe in a div or something like that.
What have you done?