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Re:Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without ... by theycallmeg on Thursday January 22, 2015 @09:03AM (#8929146)
Started as a weekend project but took me almost two weeks. Please share any feedback.
Re:Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without ... by appenin on Thursday January 22, 2015 @09:42AM (#8929329)
Thank you, it's pretty sad that we've had to wait years for something that was available in nineties versions of Internet Explorer.
Re:Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without ... by icebraining on Thursday January 22, 2015 @10:54AM (#8929781)
We didn't, I've been using Offline Browser[1] for quite a while now. This does seem more polished, though.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.nikodroid.o...

Re:Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without ... by kofalt on Thursday January 22, 2015 @09:49AM (#8929371)
The feature of being able to share a URL from my browser to Offline is pretty sweet.

I was irate that I had to type out URLs, until I thought to try that :)

Bug report: hitting the Back button takes me out of the browser, while the back arrow goes backwards in web history. I expected them to be the other way around (behaving more like a normal browser).

Re:Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without ... by theycallmeg on Thursday January 22, 2015 @09:58AM (#8929426)
It's not a bug, it's a feature :) I just hate that I can't exit the browser with a back button, but I may be the only one.
Re:Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without ... by kofalt on Thursday January 22, 2015 @10:19AM (#8929562)
I don't know if it's reasonable to ask this, but it would be cool to have an option to swap them around?

I guess I'll always be assuming it behaves like Firefox, so I'm tripping myself up a lot.

Either way, very cool app.

Re:Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without ... by theycallmeg on Thursday January 22, 2015 @10:27AM (#8929607)
It should be easy to add that option, I hope it will be in the next version.
Re:Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without ... by shmapf on Thursday January 22, 2015 @01:01PM (#8930597)
Just 2 weeks! I am very impressed. Great work.

First URL I typed in was news.ycombinator.com, which wasn't valid until I added the http://. I don't think most users would know to do that. Could you default to https / http when it isn't specified?

Re:Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without ... by theycallmeg on Thursday January 22, 2015 @03:19PM (#8931479)
Makes sense, I'll probably include a preview of the website as well. Thanks for the feedback.
Re:Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without ... by SmokeyThompson on Thursday January 22, 2015 @09:37AM (#8929309)
Thanks for this. I take the subway every day of the week, and unfortunately we don't have internet service in the subway tunnels. I've been hoping for an app like this for a long time. Will definitely download and try it!
Re:Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without ... by sogen on Thursday January 22, 2015 @11:23AM (#8929959)
Nice, thanks!