alice-teacher Posted Alice 3.1

[Don Slater]

See the following link, which will offer some explanations, if not a real solution:

	http://webdesign.about.com/od/beginningtutorials/qt/html_dwnld_tag.htm

This paragraph from the above link offers some insight into what is going on...

> When you click on a link in a web page, your web browser automatically attempts to open that link in the browser window. And now, with various plugins and other features, browsers can open more and more files that they used to be forced to download. Most of the time, this is what we want—after all, we're building web pages. But sometimes you post files to your website that you want people to download to their hard drive rather than view in the browser window.

It seems that the format of .a3p is different enough from the .a2w files, so that browsers will attempt to open the .a3p, and they do not try to open the .a2w.

I do not believe that the “_blank” modifier to the target tag really has impact on whether the browser will attempt to download or open a file. See this link:

	http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_target.asp

“_blank” species that the file will be open in a new window, which is what we see going on with the .a3p files.

Your best bet for the .a3p files is to more prominently display instructions that users should right-click on the link and select to save the file to their machine (as recommended in the first link).

I hope that this helps…

All the best,
Don Slater


On Nov 12, 2013, at 9:20 PM, Susan Rivas <susanmrivas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I am trying to post my students' "worlds" in Alice 3.1 and when I try to download them, they come out like garbage. Whereas, the games my students created in Alice 2.2 downloaded fine. I used the code: target="_blank" so that they would be individual downloadable files. Please let me know if you can figure out what I need to do. 
> 
> This is the link for the interactive games in Alice 2.2 that work: http://srivas-computerlab.com/bcc/video_game.html
> 
> This is the link for the worlds in Alice 3.1 that do not download correctly: http://srivas-computerlab.com/acc/iWorld.html
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> Take care,
> Susan Rivas
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