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		mnutt on April 19, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dropbox Lack of Security Downloading client-side generated files is possible using data-uri. However these are usually small; it would be very difficult to store a 1GB file in memory (in javascript) while you decrypted it and I doubt data-uris that large work across different browsers.

tlrobinson on April 19, 2011 [–]

True, but there's no way to specify the filename and extension, so in practice you have to use Flash.

mnutt on April 25, 2011 | [–]

It depends on the browser. Safari 5 works, but Chrome doesn't, not sure about Firefox, and I suspect IE doesn't.

I use it on my torrent-conversion bookmarklet on http://hid.im.

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