Re:It’s time to kill the web app
by imtringued on Saturday September 23, 2017 @07:16PM
(#15322299)
I still haven't found a reliable way to save webpages. Firefox and wget won't download stylesheets or script tags generated by javascript. The only working approach is to print webpages as PDFs. It's a pretty terrible platform for documents.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:It’s time to kill the web app
by projectant on Sunday September 24, 2017 @01:05AM
(#15323406)
That's a good point. How do you create a "local working archive" of a website? It's a really good idea. Want to get started on working on some project like this?
Re:It’s time to kill the web app
by reitanqild on Sunday September 24, 2017 @04:26AM
(#15323878)
Scrapbook extension for Firefox (one of the winners from either the first or second extension context IIRC) used to do this in a fantastic way.
You could download
- a page on it's own
- a page an all pages recursively for up to 3 levels
- optionally filtered by domain or path inside domain
- optionally including javascript (IIRC)
Sadly this is now broken in the new extension model and fixing it doesn't seem to be a priority.
Firefox is still my favourite browser by far but my enthusiasm isn't as strong as it used to be.
On the bright side even if it doesn't seem to be a priority work seems to progress on bringing the new extension APIs to a point where several of the old extensions can be recreated.