UX observaton: README download doesn't actually download directly

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
68/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
frontend

Research direction

Start at the dataset page's README download control, using the example URL in the issue to reproduce the current behavior. Trace how the control handles README.md files and verify that activating it downloads the file locally rather than opening it in a new tab.

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Description

When downloading a README from the source coop's dataset pages, it opens in a new tab like this: https://data.source.coop/wri-data-lab/trazofields/README.md rather than download directly locally, which is less intuitive

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