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Mishari Muqbil  
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 More options Nov 25 2002, 7:05 am
Newsgroups: netscape.public.mozilla.wishlist
From: Mishari Muqbil <mish...@mishari.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 22:56:05 +1100
Local: Mon, Nov 25 2002 6:56 am
Subject: File-->Save As option
Hello

Is it possible to have an option in the File Save Page as dialog to have
the page title as the default file name rather than the html file?

It's useful for things such as saving archives of news sites, but you
don't want to go thru the headache of having to copy & paste the title.

Maybe a short cut for autofill?

Regards
Mishari


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Benedikt Kantus  
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 More options Nov 25 2002, 11:57 am
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From: Benedikt Kantus <bkantusATweb.de>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 17:51:37 +0100
Local: Mon, Nov 25 2002 11:51 am
Subject: Re: File-->Save As option

> Is it possible to have an option in the File Save Page as dialog to have
> the page title as the default file name rather than the html file?

There was a discussion on Nov 16, and the answer was just like Rob Stow
said:

Why on earth would anyone expect Mozilla to use anything other
than the name of the file as the name of the file ?

B


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Mishari Muqbil  
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 More options Nov 25 2002, 10:02 pm
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From: Mishari Muqbil <mish...@mishari.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 00:00:59 +1100
Local: Mon, Nov 25 2002 8:00 am
Subject: Re: File-->Save As option
Benedikt Kantus wrote:

 >>Is it possible to have an option in the File Save Page as dialog to have
 >>the page title as the default file name rather than the html file?
 >
 >
 > There was a discussion on Nov 16, and the answer was just like Rob Stow
 > said:
 >
 > Why on earth would anyone expect Mozilla to use anything other
 > than the name of the file as the name of the file ?
 >
 > B
 >

Because the name of the file does not necessarily reflect the true
nature of the document.

Allow me to demonstrate:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2513117.stm

When browsing thru a directory listing of your archive, what the heck is
2513117.stm??

But if we use the title, which is "BBC|News|Middle East|UN inspectors
query iraqi promises" (appropriately stripping / translating illegal
characters ofcourse) I believe for laymans it can be much more intuitive.

Same applies for saved cgi pages.

The reason they expect it from Mozilla is because they've provided it in
IE. I work in a department which deals mainly with "media", and they all
love Mozilla here. But, they will not change over because it wastes too
much time and keystroke to actually copy the title and paste it in as a
file name.

Doesn't hurt to provide it as a preference does it?

Regards
Mishari


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