As many people have noticed by now, on a number of websites - ChinesePod, Yahoo Mail, etc - clicking on a download link for a Pleco flashcard list / .txt document file in our built-in web browser doesn't always download it correctly; sometimes (or all the time on some sites) the link will display in the web browser instead.
We don't yet have a really good fix for this on websites that we don't control; downloads do work fine (or we think they do) on PlecoForums, since we've coded them to work that way, but on other sites, the web browser quietly treats the file as HTML without even telling us, and the only way we could detect that the file that it downloaded is a .txt or .xml file is to download it ourselves separately in the background (obviously a bad idea on a bandwidth- and memory-constrained mobile device). So for the time being, our plan is to code in a specific list of website download links and automatically download instead of loading any URL we see from them.
The upshot of all of this is that we need to build a list of websites to check for / make sure Pleco downloads files correctly from. Thus far we've got all five of the sites linked from our default "Flashcard Lists" page (HSK Flashcards, ChinesePod, Popup Chinese, Shengci, ZDT) downloading correctly for 2.1.1, along with Gmail and Yahoo Mail attachments (Hotmail unfortunately doesn't seem to allow attachment downloads at all from their mobile web client), but if there's any other site you use to download Pleco flashcard lists or document files that doesn't currently work correctly, we'd really appreciate it if you'd let us know about it so we can make sure it works too.
TL;DR: if you can't download text / XML files in Pleco from a particular website, post the name of that site here.
Thanks!
We don't yet have a really good fix for this on websites that we don't control; downloads do work fine (or we think they do) on PlecoForums, since we've coded them to work that way, but on other sites, the web browser quietly treats the file as HTML without even telling us, and the only way we could detect that the file that it downloaded is a .txt or .xml file is to download it ourselves separately in the background (obviously a bad idea on a bandwidth- and memory-constrained mobile device). So for the time being, our plan is to code in a specific list of website download links and automatically download instead of loading any URL we see from them.
The upshot of all of this is that we need to build a list of websites to check for / make sure Pleco downloads files correctly from. Thus far we've got all five of the sites linked from our default "Flashcard Lists" page (HSK Flashcards, ChinesePod, Popup Chinese, Shengci, ZDT) downloading correctly for 2.1.1, along with Gmail and Yahoo Mail attachments (Hotmail unfortunately doesn't seem to allow attachment downloads at all from their mobile web client), but if there's any other site you use to download Pleco flashcard lists or document files that doesn't currently work correctly, we'd really appreciate it if you'd let us know about it so we can make sure it works too.
TL;DR: if you can't download text / XML files in Pleco from a particular website, post the name of that site here.
Thanks!