Inline Downloads with Data URLs
A quick post about another silly idea ... With Data URLs we can incorporate images in layout or CSS . The schema is really simple: data:[<mediatype>][;base64],<data> Since we need to specify a mediatype we could play around creating something unexpected ;-) My Silly Idea If we select something in a web page we can perform different actions via right click. So far so good ... but one thing we are missing, at least in Firefox, is a "Save As" option. If we want bring a piece of code, text, something else, into another software or editor we need to select, right click, copy, open or find the editor, right click, paste. The ultra skilled developers goes well with ctrl+c and ctrl+v but there are still 3 operations to do: copy, find the destination, paste What about making possible to simply save that part and go on reading or surfing in order to do not distract too much our lecture and review eventually later that piece of text or code? Firefox Inline Download function ...