[imp] Re: Users don't want to "download" attachments

[Daniel Eckl]

You told several times, what's _not_ the wanted behavior and what the user's 
_don't_ want to do.

I don't know IMP 3 and I cannot imagine what the want to do if they don't want 
to preview the attachement by clicking on the link (assuming you have all the 
converters installed) and if the don't want to click the download icon and 
download the attachement.

There is nearly no other thing you can do with an attachement, no matter if 
you use IMP4 or 3.

You could configure the browser to automagically open the attachment with the 
respective application, but to be honest: Do you want that really? Every 
Excel sheet or Word document with macro viruses automatically opened? Every 
iloveyou.pif automatically executed? Every Yourpassword.txt.scr automatically 
started?

No matter if you really want that or not, the functionality needs only the 
(already existing) download button and some configuration on the client side.

If I missed a point because of you didn't really tell what is really wanted, 
then please provide info.

Best,
Daniel

Am Freitag, 8. April 2005 21:49 schrieb Matthew Boehm:
> OK. For some strange reason, this behavior was changed from pre 4.x imp.
>
> In old imp, a person would receive a word, or excel attachment. The
> filename would have a link and the correct icon would be displayed. When a
> person clicked on the link, the file would be opened in a new browser
> window by the application itself. Ex: Excel would launch itself and be
> "inside" the browser much like Adobe PDFs.
>
> Now, in imp 4.0, when a person clicks on the link, instead of getting the
> old behavior, they are prompted with this error about not finding xlhtml or
> some other program. This is bad. This is not expected behavior. So I went
> into horde/config/mime_types.php and commented out all instances of
> "msexcel" and "msword".
>
> But now, the links are not there, and the icon is incorrect. WTF happened?
> Users don't want to have to click the "download" icon and actually save it
> somewhere. This is not what they are used to at all.
>
> How can I get back the old behavior? We like all the other features that
> IMP 4 and Horde 3 offer but we need this paticular "old" way of doing
> things.
>
> Thanks,
> Matthew
>
> --
> Matthew Boehm
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