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Post by alentist »

JoeSmithson wrote: post #73
romwell wrote: post #15

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>There's no reason why a web browser bookmark action doesn't automatically create a WARC (web archive) format. Indeed. And I still remember the modem days where I would download entire websites because the ISP charged by the hour, and I'd read them offline to save money.

I can't put my finger on it but this has a sort of Dickensian quality to me. I think this says something kind of profound about information and capitalism and whatnot.

It says scarce resources are pricier. Welcome to the real world!

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Post by dragonsh »

pinehqcom wrote: post #330
dragonsh wrote: post #139

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No need of proprietary code and apps why not build it into browsers. I have seen Firefox and Chrome can download web pages. So it will be nicer if they can download the bookmarked pages and store in a local html, css, image folder. I think it's pretty easy to achieve. Also people need to move away from those esoteric reactjs, angular, vuejs and plethora of CMS as API or static site generators relying on some js frame…

This... I just found a plugin for the static site generator Pelican that is 7 years old that still works. After running Pelican you get plain HTML that can be hosted anywhere. I like Netlify, but other options like GitHub pages are also great. The author recommends not putting on GitHub Pages because they haven't found a working business model and might not be here in the future. But... GitHub has been taken over by…

You can say the same about geocities when it was acquired by yahoo. But it didn't last and then now it's happening with yahoo-groups. So I am not hopeful if GitHub becomes a liability microsoft will keep it.

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chrismorgan wrote: post #308
abrolhos wrote: post #286

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Not sure you're aware of this one too... But, you might like the "Ctrl+Tab" shortcut as well. With it you can alternate between the last few active tabs, with thumbnails. Really handy.

I don’t think I’ve come across a single Firefox user that ever uses keyboard shortcuts that has left it that way—all have found the “Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order” preference and turned it off, so that it goes through tabs in order, like literally every other program I’ve ever encountered does with tabs. (Yes, Alt +Tab does MRU window switching, but that has never been the convention for Ctrl +T…

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Re: This Page is Designed to Last

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Post by ihuman »

chrismorgan wrote: post #308
abrolhos wrote: post #286

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Not sure you're aware of this one too... But, you might like the "Ctrl+Tab" shortcut as well. With it you can alternate between the last few active tabs, with thumbnails. Really handy.

I don’t think I’ve come across a single Firefox user that ever uses keyboard shortcuts that has left it that way—all have found the “Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order” preference and turned it off, so that it goes through tabs in order, like literally every other program I’ve ever encountered does with tabs. (Yes, Alt +Tab does MRU window switching, but that has never been the convention for Ctrl +T…

If you keep Control+Tab set to cycle through tabs in recently used order, you can use Command-Shift-Left/Right or Control-PageUp/PageDown to cycle through tabs in tab-bar order instead.

Additionally, you don't need an extension to jump to a tab anymore. Command-[1-8] goes to that number tab in the current window, where 1 is the leftmost tab. Command-9 goes to the rightmost tab.

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Post by dragonsh »

dbtx wrote: post #213
dragonsh wrote: post #139

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No need of proprietary code and apps why not build it into browsers. I have seen Firefox and Chrome can download web pages. So it will be nicer if they can download the bookmarked pages and store in a local html, css, image folder. I think it's pretty easy to achieve. Also people need to move away from those esoteric reactjs, angular, vuejs and plethora of CMS as API or static site generators relying on some js frame…

> Markdown is not a specification Not by that name... https://commonmark.org/

It is stil not a specification like restructuredText[1]. Also wikiMarkup (which really started this markdown) is different from GitHub markdown, which is different from other markdown editors. Also many sites use their own markdown versions.

If you are in restructuredText world there is one specification and all implementation adhere to it, be it pandoc, sphinx, pelican, nikola. The beauty of it is that it has extension mechanisms which provides enough room for each tool to develop it. But markup can be parsed by any tool.

[1] https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtex...

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Post by genuinebyte »

ShamelessC wrote: post #333
6510 wrote: post #109

I have to compliment Jeff for first telling me unpopular things I already believe then adding sensible things to it (except the link back to his page) The idea ForEach person to write just one single web page is really wonderful. I'm going to have to deeply ponder that and make one. While I really like the permanent web and losing centralized control over data is a price worth paying (.... no wait, I would pay money…

Hm I really like the idea of using torrent as a Fail-Safe for media. How do you go about generating a magnet link for your videos?

I'd like to chime in here and suggest you have a look at PeerTube. https://joinpeertube.org/en/

I haven't tried it yet but it uses the BitTorrent protocol for video retrieval, so there is your magnet link? Of course it is self-hosted if you can't find an instance that'll take you, but it might be a good option.

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Post by aidenn0 »

abrolhos wrote: post #286
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #284

The author says: "that formerly beloved browser feature that seems to have lost the battle to 'address bar autocomplete'." But at least in firefox, if you type "*" then your searched terms in the URL bar, it actually queries your bookmarks ! There are many such operators, you can search in your history ("^"), your tags ("+"), you tabs ("%"): https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-keyboard-sh... My favorite…

Not sure you're aware of this one too... But, you might like the "Ctrl+Tab" shortcut as well. With it you can alternate between the last few active tabs, with thumbnails. Really handy.

At least on linux, that shortcut does not use an MRU ordering; I see other replies mentioning the command key; is this behavior Mac specific?

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Post by sergimansilla »

chippy wrote: post #297
sergimansilla wrote: post #251

It sounds like the perfect case for the Beaker browser ( https://www.beakerbrowser.com ), which is backed solidly by the Dat protocol.

an experimental browser is to be considered something which will last a long time? Or would it need lots of maintenance? I can predict that in the next 5 years there will be some api change and users will have to migrate. And some users will not. If users will be dropped then it is not a perfect thing that makes pages last. Yes it probably is great to get started for newbies, but the article was about things that las…

Doesn’t seem like you know what you’re talking about. API changes? Sure, if you’re referring to the HTML language changing. The content does not depend on the browser being there. It’s just “dat” addresses. Dat is a public p2p protocol with good success stories, especially in the scientific community.

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Post by eavotan »

soulofmischief wrote: post #234
shasheene wrote: post #7

There's no reason why a web browser bookmark action doesn't automatically create a WARC (web archive) format. Heck, with the cost of storage so low, recording every webpage you ever visit in searchable format is also very realistic. Imagine having the last 30 years of web browsing history saved on your local machine. This would especially be useful when in research mode and deep diving a topic. [1] https://github.com…

I use the Zotero extension for this feature. https://www.zotero.org/

came here to say this. zotero also saves metadata as an extra. as long as it is used from within a browser.
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