IE: Download dialog needs redesign/bugfix

Submission details

168 +179/-11 votes

IE: Download dialog needs redesign/bugfix

Submitted by thda on June 7, 2008 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Bug, Legacy, Usability

Problem: - This is a file copy operation, so this dialog should look like the file copy dialogs. The "Security Warning" dialog should be integrated into the download dialog.
- No support for pause/resume or error recovery.
- BUG: If you run out of space on C:, the download appears to succeed, but the downloaded file is incomplete.
There is no warning, just a corrupted file and a dialog that claims that the download succeeded!

Solution: - Redesign the dialog to look like the file copy dialogs.
This dialog should first show the "security warning", and then change to show the download status.
- Handle timeout errors intelligently (show a Try Again button).
- Check for, and reserve, disk space BEFORE the download begins.
- Downloading directly to the target partition, instead of downloading to C: first, and then moving the file to the target location. This would prevent the errors that occur, when there is not enough free space on the target partition, or when the user is downloading files larger that the amount of free space on C:.

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

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Discussion (9 comments)

eried wrote on June 8, 2008, 12:32am

For the moment I love IE7 + www.ie7pro.com features

.Chris wrote on June 8, 2008, 2:09am

IE8 may get a download manager. if thats the case then this box will be history. We had this box since the start, they just updated the icons in it for vista/ie7

So I really vote for a download manager, but a bit more advanced then firefoxs.

Turbo wrote on June 8, 2008, 5:32am

This is a feature request...

... and yet it's soooo true! Promoted!

thda wrote on June 10, 2008, 9:39pm

Actually, I don't want a download manager...

It would be inconsistent with the normal file copy operations and the progress of each file would not be visible in the taskbar. And really, how often do you download that many files at once?

Also, with a download manager you would still have 3 different dialogs involved in the download process: The Security Warning, the Save As dialog, and the progress window.
I think it is much more intuitive to have only a single download dialog and a Save As dialog to choose where to save the file.

n8allan wrote on June 11, 2008, 8:06pm

How about a download queue so we don't have to see and deal with a bunch of popups when downloading multiple files.

jepherberich wrote on June 12, 2008, 7:56pm

@longzheng: isn't this a duplicate of http://www.aerotaskforce.com/view/167

thda wrote on June 15, 2008, 3:42am

@jepherberich: No, that one is about the animation only; read my problem description.

kaiyao wrote on August 2, 2008, 6:43am

Did anyone notice that two different fonts (Microsoft Sans Serif and Segoe UI) are used in the same dialog window. It looks bad.

yannduran wrote on April 19, 2009, 9:13am

@n8allan - EXCELLENT idea!!!