[tahoe-dev] help: how should you tell a web browser what name to use for a file?

[zooko]

On May 10, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Brian Warner wrote:

> 1b: /named/FILEURI/whee.ogg
>     /cap/DIRURI/whee.ogg
...
> 1ca: /named/FILEURI/@@name=/whee.ogg
>
> in which case we're back to the confusion you wanted to avoid earlier,
> between these two cases:
>
>  /named/FILEURI/@@name=/whee.ogg
>  /cap/DIRURI/@@name=/whee.ogg   (which involves a subdir named  
> "@@name=")

No, this is different from the earlier problem, because this problem  
arises only in the case that someone decides to name their Tahoe  
directory "@@name=".

I'm okay with that.


> If they're as short as we're planning, I think the front would be  
> ok. As a
> random data point, when firefox offers to save a file with a long  
> filename,
> it shows the beginning of the name, rather than the end.

Those are good points.  I think you're right, but let's look at some  
capabilities in their contexts (e.g. in a URL which is being used in  
text or in a web browser's location widget) before making up our  
minds, okay?

Regards,

Zooko