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Re:SingleFile: A Web Extension to save a complete web page i... by mdaniel on Saturday December 21, 2024 @04:31PM (#42482496)
Yeah, understood, there seems to be a bunch of "yes, well, monkey with this thing" options, but if the default behavior is not to preserve all the resources because of some pearl-clutching paranoia or whatever, then it's not a complete web page now is it?
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Re:SingleFile: A Web Extension to save a complete web page i... by lynndotpy on Saturday December 21, 2024 @07:48PM (#42483573)
It's not paranoia, it's a feature that I consider to be useful and desirable. When I want to download the JavaScript, I use the built-in "save" feature. When I don't, I use SingleFile.
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Re:SingleFile: A Web Extension to save a complete web page i... by varelaseb on Saturday December 21, 2024 @04:35PM (#42482529)
This is the worst gotcha I've ever seen
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Re:SingleFile: A Web Extension to save a complete web page i... by wakawaka28 on Saturday December 21, 2024 @05:05PM (#42482725)
It depends what you want... Lots of JS will not work offline and I don't think a plugin can know what will work or not. If the page is dynamically populated from an API, saving the page to rely on JS later could be basically wrong.
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