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Download onClick

Ajax requests to server are always expected to return text output and for some reason the Content-disposition: attachment; doesn't cause the browser to show the save dialog. I searched for a while and found a jquery plugin which does it but i kept looking anyway. One interesting solution was to include an iframe in the page and set its' location to the url which would download the file when that didn't work i just used the var url = "cgi-bin/getreffile.py?" + $.params({qo:"LDS", sv:["dk", "df"]}); window.location = url And surprisingly this worked well atleast on the browsers that i checked with.. (chrome, ff ).

2D Boy

No this is not a blog post about the 2D boy game studio. ... its' about a 2D character i designed from scratch.. This was the first time i did it, the work i did with recreating the 2D characters from Sita sings' blues has certainly helped me a lot here. First i used MyPaint to create rough sketches of how i wanted the character to look.  Sketch of Characters I wanted to go for a cartoon look but still wanted it to be a believable one. At first i tried to push for a simple Rayman style character but finally decided on this character. The game was going to use a side view.. so i had to work on creating a side view of the character.. I think the isometric view would have been better but the side view is what was requested.. :D Side View of the Character Once i got the side view done.. i wasn't too happy about the shoes so i tried to draw that separately so i can focus on its' details. Once i got the side view, i used Inkscape to create the colors and the