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Firefox still has it under File.
In the modern hamburger menu, it’s under “More”.
Ever if you have menu disabled, you can still open it by pressing Alt, no need to suffer using hamburger.
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I implemented some options for that purpose in SingleFile [1]. They allow you to save the page when you bookmark it and eventually replace the URL of the page with the file URI on your disk. [1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
Why a zip file instead of a WARC file? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_ARChive
see: https://github.com/c9fe/22120#why-not-warc-or-another-format...
> Both WARC and MHTML require mutilatious modifications of the resources so that the resources can be "forced to fit" the format. At 22120, we believe this is not required
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Why a zip file instead of a WARC file? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_ARChive
Because it's easier to produce and extract. The zip format also allows creating self-extracting files (I'm referring to SingleFileZ). I'm not sure this is possible with the WARC format.
I see you answered this in a thread a year ago [1] (came up in a Google search), my apologies.
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#54I'd love to see an entry in the FAQ explaining the weird name.
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#55Isn't this how the internet was supposed to work in the first place? I remember Netscape navigator having a 'go offline' icon in the corner.
Don't know if recently it changed, but that's how internet in Cuba works (at least until 2014)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2014/...
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I remember that button, too, but I think it had more to do with connection charges than caching. In Netscape days, many people would have to pay by the minute to be connected to the internet. In those days, web pages generally contained far more information than they do now, and were less interactive. So you'd connect, load the content you wanted to see, disconnect, and then just sit there and read it for free, inste…
I'm not sure that was the use-case. With pre-DHTML HTML4, there really just wasn't anything on a page that could continue to interact with the server after the page finished loading. So, presuming the button was for your described use-case, what would the difference be between "going offline" and just... not clicking any more links? (It's not like Netscape could or should signal your modem to hang up — Netscape doesn…
You must be young :)
These browsers were born in the era of dialup Internet that had per minute charges and/or long distance charges. At the very least you were tying up your family's phone line.
Basically it's like paying for every minute your cable modem is plugged in.
For the feature itself: Netscape had integration with the modem connectivity for the OS and would initiate a connection when you tried to visit a remote page. Offline mode let you disable automatic dialing of the modem.
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#58This is really cool. Thank you for being open source.
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I remember that button, too, but I think it had more to do with connection charges than caching. In Netscape days, many people would have to pay by the minute to be connected to the internet. In those days, web pages generally contained far more information than they do now, and were less interactive. So you'd connect, load the content you wanted to see, disconnect, and then just sit there and read it for free, inste…
I'm not sure that was the use-case. With pre-DHTML HTML4, there really just wasn't anything on a page that could continue to interact with the server after the page finished loading. So, presuming the button was for your described use-case, what would the difference be between "going offline" and just... not clicking any more links? (It's not like Netscape could or should signal your modem to hang up — Netscape doesn…
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#60I remember seeing this on reddit, the license changed quite a lot over the past month, with some very weird custom licenses asking you not to be a fake victim, lie, etc in the process - https://github.com/c9fe/22120/commits/master/LICENSE - how safe is it to assume that the current license will stay?