How to make a browser display a "save as dialog" so the user can save the content of a string to a file on his system?

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MaiaVictor · Jul 5, 2012 · Viewed 145.2k times · Source

How can I make a browser display a "save as dialog" so the user can save the content of a string to a file on his system?

For example:

var myString = "my string with some stuff";
save_to_filesystem(myString,"myString.txt");

Resulting in something like this:

Example

Answer

In case anyone is still wondering...

I did it like this:

<a href="data:application/xml;charset=utf-8,your code here" download="filename.html">Save</a>

cant remember my source but it uses the following techniques\features:

Found the reference:

EDIT: As you can gather from the comments this does NOT work in