Comment 7 for bug 861545

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Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless) wrote : Re: [Bug 861545] IE Warning Pop-Up on File History Preview

Very good, I'll test it this morning and ask Jim to test on all his versions of IE.

--Paul

On Oct 3, 2011, at 4:00 AM, Carlos de la Guardia wrote:

> The problem was that IE will show the information bar whenever a JS call
> becomes a file download, so nothing could be gained by changing the
> headers. I decided to look at the context in the history view and change
> the preview js call to a simple html link for download whenever we are
> dealing with a file. Previews for other types will keep using Ajax.
>
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> Title:
> IE Warning Pop-Up on File History Preview
>
> Status in KARL3:
> Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
> There is an IE warning that pops up every time you click on the
> preview option on the File History screen when the file is a file type
> that can't be previewed in the browser window (MS Office docs, etc.).
> See screenshot for the warning. This is very annoying because you get
> the warning every time you use a preview link. We need to research is
> this type of pop-up can be prevented by changing an IE security
> setting or if we have to change the user experience to get around this
> pop-up. The ideal behavior is what we have when you click on the view
> or download link on the normal File detail page.
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