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Download should warn that Chrome will flag the file #80

Open thomaswp opened 4 years ago

thomaswp commented 4 years ago

Just a suggestion: When you download a .py file in Chrome, it warns you that this may contain a virus, and some Chrome browsers won't download it at all (~10% of my class). BlockPy may want to warn users to expect this message and not to worry about it.

acbart commented 4 years ago

Hm, I'm a little hesitant to just toss up a message warning students about an error message that only a percentage will see. Students tend to be flighty, and this is the kind of thing that will trigger some students that DON'T get the message to ask "why didn't I get that message?" or ask for explanations of what it's saying. It'd be really great to find a way to detect if the download failed and show an explanation for that case.

It's also difficult to keep up with this kind of thing - security settings always seem to be evolving. I can't even repro because my version of Chrome doesn't do this. I think I'll want to get a better sense of how much of an issue this is before I make any big decisions about what kind of text to display and how to display. But thanks for starting the conversation, I'll start keeping an eye out for this.