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diff --git a/docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md b/docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md index b44359f..9076ebc 100644 --- a/docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md +++ b/docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md @@ -2364,6 +2364,14 @@ Specific rules the download path is built on: the frame source policy, the frame-ancestors policy and the legacy frame option. Same-origin framing is what a streamed download needs; refusing every foreign origin is unaffected. +- **A downloaded file is opened in a tab only under a type that runs nothing.** + A tab on a `blob:` URL is a document of the hub's origin, with its session and + its keys; measured in Chrome and Firefox, HTML typed `text/html` runs there and + the same bytes typed `text/plain` do not. So "Open" is offered for PDFs, raster + images, audio, video and plain text, under a type chosen from the name — never + the one the browser would guess from the bytes — and not at all otherwise + (`downloads.openInTab`). Like resumability, whether a row can be opened is + declared by its target. **Pause and resume, and where resumability actually lives.** A pause button that quietly restarts a download from zero is worse than no pause button, so the diff --git a/docs/USERGUIDE.md b/docs/USERGUIDE.md index e190a92..7eeafbf 100644 --- a/docs/USERGUIDE.md +++ b/docs/USERGUIDE.md @@ -370,6 +370,11 @@ resume. - **Browsing is never queued.** Posters, thumbnails, opening a photo or a document to look at it — none of it takes a transfer slot. A busy group browses exactly like an idle one. +- **In a browser, Open is offered for PDFs, pictures, music, video and plain + text.** A web page, an SVG image or anything else that could run code is + not opened in a tab: the page would run as MeshBay, with your session. The + file is saved all the same — open it from your downloads folder. The + desktop application opens every file with your system's own program. ### Casting to a TV |