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FileSaver window.saveAs shim
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// window.saveAs | |
// Shims the saveAs method, using saveBlob in IE10. | |
// And for when Chrome and FireFox get round to implementing saveAs we have their vendor prefixes ready. | |
// But otherwise this creates a object URL resource and opens it on an anchor tag which contains the "download" attribute (Chrome) | |
// ... or opens it in a new tab (FireFox) | |
// @author Andrew Dodson | |
// @copyright MIT, BSD. Free to clone, modify and distribute for commercial and personal use. | |
window.saveAs || ( window.saveAs = (window.navigator.msSaveBlob ? function(b,n){ return window.navigator.msSaveBlob(b,n); } : false) || window.webkitSaveAs || window.mozSaveAs || window.msSaveAs || (function(){ | |
// URL's | |
window.URL || (window.URL = window.webkitURL); | |
if(!window.URL){ | |
return false; | |
} | |
return function(blob,name){ | |
var url = URL.createObjectURL(blob); | |
// Test for download link support | |
if( "download" in document.createElement('a') ){ | |
var a = document.createElement('a'); | |
a.setAttribute('href', url); | |
a.setAttribute('download', name); | |
// Create Click event | |
var clickEvent = document.createEvent ("MouseEvent"); | |
clickEvent.initMouseEvent ("click", true, true, window, 0, | |
event.screenX, event.screenY, event.clientX, event.clientY, | |
event.ctrlKey, event.altKey, event.shiftKey, event.metaKey, | |
0, null); | |
// dispatch click event to simulate download | |
a.dispatchEvent (clickEvent); | |
} | |
else{ | |
// fallover, open resource in new tab. | |
window.open(url, '_blank', ''); | |
} | |
}; | |
})() ); |
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Not working on Firefox. I fixed it. (2nd commit is just a coding style fix)