Name: USDOFCP 2009-10-04 21:26
Traditional methods require to download the page twice. Once when you view it, again when you choose to save it. Which is exactly what I don't want to do.
Since many pages are dynamic, downloading it twice is equivalent to refreshing the page and saving *that* page which isn't the same as the first page you saw.
By simply viewing the page, you have already acquired all the scripts you need to see the page exactly as you see it. If you didn't, the page would not render correctly. So why is there nothing to simply redirect or pipe everything I do on the web to my harddrive and then show me the local version?
I'm not concerned with downloading real-time streaming RTMP and anything like that. I am only concerned with having all web-pages automatically saved in their correct formatting as I view them so that I can choose to keep the ones I want while deleting the ones I don't want.
* For some reason, pages lose a lot of their formatting and style if you save them using the default Save As, Complete Webpage option. This is why that method SUCKS.
* With traditional methods, you have to check to make sure the stupid piece of shit didn't save junk. This is a waste of time.
* Sometimes, you are at the mercy of bad fortune and the website could make it so that you NEVER see exactly what you saw the first time, so saving becomes pointless and you lost the page you wanted to save and there's no way of pressing back to get it because the site is "dynamic" and now you're fucked.
To date, I know of no program or add-on that does exactly this. For a budding web designer / researcher, such a tool would be invaluable.
Since many pages are dynamic, downloading it twice is equivalent to refreshing the page and saving *that* page which isn't the same as the first page you saw.
By simply viewing the page, you have already acquired all the scripts you need to see the page exactly as you see it. If you didn't, the page would not render correctly. So why is there nothing to simply redirect or pipe everything I do on the web to my harddrive and then show me the local version?
I'm not concerned with downloading real-time streaming RTMP and anything like that. I am only concerned with having all web-pages automatically saved in their correct formatting as I view them so that I can choose to keep the ones I want while deleting the ones I don't want.
* For some reason, pages lose a lot of their formatting and style if you save them using the default Save As, Complete Webpage option. This is why that method SUCKS.
* With traditional methods, you have to check to make sure the stupid piece of shit didn't save junk. This is a waste of time.
* Sometimes, you are at the mercy of bad fortune and the website could make it so that you NEVER see exactly what you saw the first time, so saving becomes pointless and you lost the page you wanted to save and there's no way of pressing back to get it because the site is "dynamic" and now you're fucked.
To date, I know of no program or add-on that does exactly this. For a budding web designer / researcher, such a tool would be invaluable.