QWERTY keyboards need to go away, but they are design patterns that people are used to.
Any file the browser would normally try to display natively or through a plugin can be forced to download using this attribute.
What if you want to do the opposite? Are we going to have to do "Right+click and Open in Browser"? What about mobile? Also, as far as I'm aware this issue is only really with PDF files, as virtually every other MIME extension is not supported by a browser.
> Also, as far as I'm aware this issue is only really with PDF files, as virtually every other MIME extension is not supported by a browser.
It's worse with XML files, source code and some kinds of data files (generic separated by char). Browsers try to open those, and remove important data from the display (and the copy buffer).
Any file the browser would normally try to display natively or through a plugin can be forced to download using this attribute.
What if you want to do the opposite? Are we going to have to do "Right+click and Open in Browser"? What about mobile? Also, as far as I'm aware this issue is only really with PDF files, as virtually every other MIME extension is not supported by a browser.