To name just one thing that IE still doesn't support: setting the download attri...

Turing_Machine on Feb 27, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The birth of Microsoft's new web rendering engine

To name just one thing that IE still doesn't support: setting the download attribute on a link. Neither does Safari.

This makes it very clumsy/impossible to write real web apps that need to save to the local file system. The scenario is generating a document client-side using JavaScript. Now you want to let the user save it. In Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and no doubt others, this isn't a problem. Just set the download attribute on the link to the file name you want to use.

Encosia on Feb 27, 2015 [–]

You can use this API onclick to do the same thing: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/hh673542%28v=vs....

Now, let's talk about Chrome's pointer events support...