? automatically close the "downloads" window

[christo]

Hi All,

I am new to this forum and perhaps you know a solution to the
following .

My Java application is controlled by tiny xml files which are downloaded
and processed when the user clicks the respective <a href="...">
... </a> links. These xml files are downloaded and processed by a
program ../bin/javaws which is part of the Java environment. The
problem is that each time the user clicks an xml file the "downloads"
window appears (depending on what is selected in preferences).

Is there a trick to let the "downloads"-window automatically disappear
for this specific type of link, something like a
java-script-function or an attribute in the URL?

Many thanks

Christoph

[FirefoxWiz]

I don't think so. To make the downloads window disappear, the person needs to set it to auto disappear in their browser.

[christo]

I don't think so.

Thanks, this is what I expected.
Doyou think that it would be worth a
request of feature that users could decide for each file type individually whether the download dialog comes up or not ?
For example I would not want to see the download dialog for pdf and jnlp but would like to see it for zip, tar.gz and .sh. There could be a checkbox where
the user decides what program is used to process a downloaded file.
Christoph

[FirefoxWiz]

You could request it, but I doubt they'd do it.

[Tuekie456]

Mozilla takes suggestions?

[FirefoxWiz]

Probably, if you email the administrator.