Yes Dave, I agree that downloading files has been supported in browsers since long .
But in general we send request & then receives files from web server but in our case we are fetching our data from
Backbonemodels & then converting it to CSV format for downloading as a file at client side in browser itself.
> On 28-Jun-2016, at 2:44 pm, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 7:08 AM, Murtuza Zabuawala
> <murtuza.zabuawala@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> Yes, Safari is exception case because it does not support download attribute of hyperlink <a> element.
>>
>> Ref: http://caniuse.com/#feat=download
>>
>> I was not able to find any workaround for Safari as of now that’s is why I mentioned only Firefox & IE in my last
email,
>> Earlier it was only working on Chrome and with this patch it will work with Chrome/Firefox/IE.
>
> Well downloading files has been supported in browsers since NCSA
> Mosaic, so it's nothing new :-). We need to fix this, one way or
> another.
>
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