SingleFileZ, a web extension for saving pages as HTML/ZIP hybrid files

Re:SingleFileZ, a web extension for saving pages as HTML/ZIP... by gildas on Sunday November 03, 2019 @06:13PM (#21437433)

Actually, what is supposed to be interesting and innovative in SingleFileZ is the fact that it produces self-extracting valid zip files in the form of HTML files. Thus, they can be read natively by any modern browser that supports JavaScript.

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Re:SingleFileZ, a web extension for saving pages as HTML/ZIP... by burtonator on Sunday November 03, 2019 @06:30PM (#21437537)

Ah. Interesting. That's a good innovation. How do you determine the domain/URL? I guess it's just the URL of the source?

What would you do if your HTML extraction script had a bug in the pre-compiled form? I guess you're just stuck?

I guess that's not the end of the world.

The EPUB form in a future version of Polar would at least require an EPUB reader which makes it a bit heavier.

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Re:SingleFileZ, a web extension for saving pages as HTML/ZIP... by gildas on Sunday November 03, 2019 @06:40PM (#21437582)

SingleFileZ creates its own paths to reference all the resources of the page in the zip. This prevents any invalid path issues. The URL of the resource is stored as a comment for each entry in the zip though (I'm unsure I'm really answering to your question). If there is a bug in the extraction script, there are some chances you can still unzip the file.

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