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I have some javascript that does a saveas to prompt the user to save an xml file:<br />
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&lt;script&gt;<br />
document.execCommand('Save<wbr />As',true,'<wbr />tfbo-20070<wbr />629Abdulla<wbr />hiA.9902-.<wbr />xml');<br />
&lt;/script&gt;<br />
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This works on my machine:<br />
-windows xp pro<br />
-IE7<br />
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But not on other machines running IE 8 (and God only know what else.).<br />
The problem is that on these other machines, the file save as dialog is opened with the filename looking like this:<br />
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tfbo-20070629AbdullahiA.99<wbr />02-<br />
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Missing the &quot;.xml&quot;<br />
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I have verified all the IE settings I can think of that might affect this. ideas?
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I have some javascript that does a saveas to prompt the user to save an xml file:

<script>
document.execCommand('SaveAs',true,'tfbo-20070629AbdullahiA.9902-.xml');
</script>

This works on my machine:
-windows xp pro
-IE7

But not on other machines running IE 8 (and God only know what else.).
The problem is that on these other machines, the file save as dialog is opened with the filename looking like this:

tfbo-20070629AbdullahiA.9902-

Missing the ".xml"

I have verified all the IE settings I can think of that might affect this. ideas?

execCommand('SaveAs'... problem with filename

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