Perhaps you could have saved a little bit of time by using a ready made plugin such as danml.com/download.html or perhaps this github.com/johnculviner/jquery.fil.... They might be doing the same browser detection under the hood but we work faster with a little help from the greater development community. ;-)
Thanks for the comment. The linked packages appear to be for browser-side. Whereas the article is focused on browser detection on the server side so that downloads behave properly for the user.
Sorry
kind of skimmed through it and looked like you were talking about a client side struggle. Still surprised this kind of endeavour does not have a dedicated library to it.
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Nice writeup, we hear you.
Perhaps you could have saved a little bit of time by using a ready made plugin such as danml.com/download.html or perhaps this github.com/johnculviner/jquery.fil.... They might be doing the same browser detection under the hood but we work faster with a little help from the greater development community. ;-)
Thanks for the comment. The linked packages appear to be for browser-side. Whereas the article is focused on browser detection on the server side so that downloads behave properly for the user.
Sorry
kind of skimmed through it and looked like you were talking about a client side struggle. Still surprised this kind of endeavour does not have a dedicated library to it.