blob or raw URL for pdfs?

[oliviaguest]

I was just adding an article to the website and noticed that in the list (here: https://rescience.github.io/read/) some of the links to PDFs go to the .../blob/... and some to the .../raw/... directory/URL.

Blob does this (the the PDF preview being rendered by GH): https://github.com/ReScience-Archives/Stollmeier-2017/blob/master/article/Stollmeier-2017.pdf

While raw does this (direct link to the file, so in my browser it opens a dialogue to save the PDF): https://github.com/ReScience-Archives/Stollmeier-2017/raw/master/article/Stollmeier-2017.pdf

Which is the "right" one? Or do we not mind?

[khinsen]

There are good arguments for either one. My personal preference is linking to raw, which is how pretty much everyone outside the GitHub universe presents links to PDF.

[oliviaguest]

It's a mix of both now — do we want to be consistent?

[khinsen]

I'd say yes, but before we change anything we need to agree on this (vote?)

[oliviaguest]

I vote raw.

[fa-ahmad]

Blob also doesn't seem to work on mobile phones. At least a couple of Android mobile phones we tried on.

[rougier]

Did we do it in the end ?