somebody wrote:
> I feel your pain. On the other hand, you didn't start a large download, go
> back to typing code, have the file move dialog pop up on you and steal focus
> after the download finished with the cancel button highlighted, at which
> time you happened to be pressing enter.

That happens often enough I don't even argh over it any more. I have no idea 
why Vista decided to turn off focus-stealing-prevention. That was 
*wonderful*. :-)

> files comes to the rescue, but one has to wonder 1) why downloads aren't
> saved to the place you instructed in the first place 

Because then they wouldn't be cached. Remember that IE isn't the only piece 
of code that uses that cache. The program doing the downloads have no idea 
where you "told it to save the file". It's downloading a URL, not 
manipulating files. Maybe it's a java applet you're going to reload every 
time you open the home page, or a font you use in all your documents.

Granted, it could be better, but firefox doesn't have to deal with being 
someone else's library.

> 2) if whoever came up
> with the idea of a popups that steal focus with default buttons is aware
> that it's not DOS anymore and people do multitask 

Pop-ups should never steal focus. XP got that 99% right. Vista seems to 
steal focus always, unless you want it to.

> 3) Even though previous
> snafu was fixed more recently, why, in this day and age, program(mer)s
> mostly still play dumb and apply the same logic to 3 bytes of data as they
> do to 3GB and progress bars and time estimators are next to useless?

That too. :-)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."

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