Re: CDF browser plugin and Wolfram library archive
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg118019] Re: CDF browser plugin and Wolfram library archive
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 07:10:53 -0400 (EDT)
Yes, this is a very annoying behavior of the CDF Player plug-in. But it's worse that what your report. You used to be able to go to a page at demonstrations.wolfram.com, e.g., http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/new.html and download a "demonstration" by using the right-click maneuver. That's no longer possible. What you have to do now, in either case, is to wait for the notebook (.nb) or .cdf file to open in the browser plug-in and then use the icon the plug-in embeds in the page to save the file to disk. A more reasonable approach would be to include a user-settable option in the plug-in, so that if you clicked on a link to a .nb or .cdf, you would get a little pop-up asking whether you want to download or view; or you could set the option so it always downloads; or you could set it so it always opens the file in the browser. (That's the way a Firefox extension works with .pdf files.) On 4/8/2011 4:12 AM, Thomas Muench wrote: > Dear group, > > There is a strange behavior (correct, but not user-friendly in my opinion) > when one has the new Mathematica browser plugin installed, and wants to > download example notebooks from the Wolfram Library Archive. > See for example here: http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/Courseware/7800/ > > When one clicks on the link to download the .nb file, the file will open in > the browser plugin, not with the Mathematica application itself. To avoid > this I would normally just right-click on the link, and choose "Save link > as...". But that only provides access to the link-IMAGE, not to the notebook > behind it. > > This is the same behavior in Chrome and Firefox. > > Very annoying. > > Thomas > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305