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A workaround for a Safari drag-and-drop image bug
Authored by: mustang_dvs on Nov 17, '03 01:06:05PM
Safari's behavior for fetching drag-n-drop images is odd to begin with, and probably partially at fault.

Rather than pulling the image (if available) from the cache, Safari submits a request for the image from the server, which, if the server refuses such requests for individual image files, results in you downloading the html page that would have resulted had you simply typed the image URL into the location bar.

The other main annoyance of Safari's drag-n-drop fetch method is that if you've spent a great deal of time downloading an image (such as a high-res from a slow server) to the browser window, and then drag it to the desktop, it re-downloads it again. If, however, you can choose to Save the image (after directly accessing it via URL), it saves from the cache.

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