TableTools file extensions are not inserted when using Chrome

kbeaty

When using Chrome Version 25.0.1364.160 and earlier versions with OSX 10.8.1 on a Macbook pro, the csv, pdf, and excel csv file extensions are not inserted in the file name. After finding this on the site we are developing, I also tested on the examples (http://datatables.net/extras/tabletools/) given in dataTables and found the same result.

The same test in Safari and Firefox worked fine.

Can you give us some ideas on what to do to correct this issue?

allan

When I try it in Chrome Mac, there appears to be two steps to make it include the extension:

1. Expand to the full save dialogue box by clicking the blue down arrow at the end of the file name
2. Uncheck the 'Hide extension' option

Without doing this Chrome will truncate the extension, which I suspect they might claim is a feature rather than a bug. Having said that, this bug might also be relevant: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=160999 . I'm not sure what the correct behaviour would be here to be honest - possibly to match that of Safari, but that's a Chrome issue and not something we can work around in TableTools I'm afraid.

Regards,
Allan

kbeaty

Thanks Allan,
This is indeed the situation. We will have to try to handle this by FAQ's.