Hi,
On +2023-03-14 18:35:36 +0100, b...@bokr.com wrote:
[...]
> BUT: A nit:
>
> In firefox-esr, if you do "save-as ...", it will prompt with a file name
> seemingly pretty directly copying the URL characters, in this case
> "GNU Guix Reference Manual.html" -- which has spaces in it.
>
Sorry, I think it just copies whatever XXX is in the html header as
<title>XXX</title>
but some sites have weird strings in their titles, so the problem
remains..
> So my nuisance work flow is:
> - copy url from browser line into clipboard,
> - switch to a terminal,
> - touch $(sanitize-clipboard-url), ;; hack also puts clean name-string
> back in clipboard
> - switch to browser
> - delete undesired file name string from prompt by pasting in the clean
> name string
> - click save-as
>
> I would really like Mozilla to solve this with configurable sanitization
> options
> for the file name. Especially if I am looking at a page with an URL that has
> weird non-ascii/utf-8 characters besides spaces.
>
> But until Mozilla offers that, could GNU web pages have some kind of alias
> link on them
> with a sanitized name to do save-link-as (not plain save-as) with,
> so as to get a clean name?
I would still like this option, but I'm not sure how to implement
such an alias link in a static page.
IWG no problem if the header is dynamically generated ??
--
Regards,
Bengt Richter
