Great approach, but some work could have been saved (and robustness added) using the W3C’s HTML-XML-utils. For example, there’s hxselect, which filters HTML/XML against a CSS selector, and hxpipe, which breaks XML input into a more grep/awk-friendly format. I’ve used these tools myself on multiple occasions, they’ve saved me a huge amount of time.
Opera's UNIX dev on how he uses wget and grep to read blog comments
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Re: Opera's UNIX dev on how he uses wget and grep to read blog comments
#12Take away: including permalinks for included bits of pages (such as comments) can be useful when they are crawled. Encouraging serendipity.
Or just allowing a 'view all comments' option that could be easily Ctrl-Fd.
Re: Opera's UNIX dev on how he uses wget and grep to read blog comments
#13Funny to see an Opera guy suggesting a way to browse the web without using Opera :) He even says it is easier to read all the comments that way (via text using curl / wget/ grep) instead of using their browser (not that I don't agree with him).
Yeah, but he's probably one of those guys that's still using Pine for his email.
Re: Opera's UNIX dev on how he uses wget and grep to read blog comments
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
If that's the case, shouldn't they/he be adding some functionality via plugin(or built-in) that improves the situation in Opera.
Why would you do that, if using wget and grep were easier?
Because if he needs to do that, then presumably other people have the same problem, and I'd be reasonably sure at least some of them can't or aren't prepared to use wget, sed & grep to find things they did in another program.
Browsers already have history, so it seems to me it would be logical to extend that functionality to show how a page changed in response to an input somewhere in your history.
Re: Opera's UNIX dev on how he uses wget and grep to read blog comments
#15Re: Opera's UNIX dev on how he uses wget and grep to read blog comments
#16Funny to see an Opera guy suggesting a way to browse the web without using Opera :) He even says it is easier to read all the comments that way (via text using curl / wget/ grep) instead of using their browser (not that I don't agree with him).
He isn't suggesting a way to browse the web without Opera.
He's suggesting a way to overcome design problems on a site.