#2733 HIGH Trial-3: Browse shouldn't open plain text links, instead should download them

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#2733: Browse shouldn't open plain text links, instead should download them
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  Reporter:  HoboPrimate  |       Owner:  dcbw   
      Type:  defect       |      Status:  new    
  Priority:  high         |   Milestone:  Trial-3
 Component:  sugar        |     Version:         
Resolution:               |    Keywords:         
  Verified:  0            |  
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Comment (by HoboPrimate):

 Replying to [comment:5 AlbertCahalan]:
 > Consistent behavior is critical in a UI. It's best for the browser to
 make heroic attempts to display whatever the user browses to. Browsing is
 not editing. Suddenly needing to close an app (instead of hitting the
 "back" button) is not good UI design.
 I think eben wasn't saying that the text file would be automatically
 opened by Read, only that it would be automatically downloaded to the
 Journal and associated with the Read activity.

 But I agree with you, contrary to my original thinking when submitting
 this bug. Many times will a kid be browsing the (inter)net and come to all
 kinds of files that the browser also opens. If Browse automatically
 downloads all files when it could view them, then the kid will get stuff
 on his Journal that he may not want.[[BR]]

 Do we(you) then assume that by default those files aren't stored in
 Journal, unless the kid takes action to do so?[[BR]]
 Right now, when Browse is viewing an image (http://www.some-
 server.com/hello.png), you can dnd it to the clipboard and save it that
 way. But with text files it's trickier, as you have to select all the
 text, then dnd the selection to the clipboard.[[BR]]
 What if Browse had an Edit menu, with a "copy to clipboard" button which
 would copy the current file Browse is viewing (be it an image, a text
 file, or even an html file) and copy thinks from webpages as well (text
 and images).

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