title: How to access and download a file from a server using HTML 5
body: <p>I am currently working on a website that users can download binary media files from (mainly .mp3). We need a way for a "Download" button to save the file to the user's specified location  in their browser's preferences, and it needs to somehow display a progress bar.</p>
  
  <p>Currently, all I'm worried about is finding a way to implement this using HTML5 and doing it in such a way that in future versions we will later be able to access that stream so that once we get this basic download part coded, we can somehow implement a progress bar in the future.</p>
  
  <p>I know HTML5 has a File API, but very few browsers currently allow its implementation, and we need this to work on IE 7+ and regularly used versions of Chrome and Firefox.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for your help!</p>