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Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without a network connection

#1

Post by theycallmeg » Thu, Jan 22, 2015, 2:02 PM UTC

Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without a network connection
play.google.com

Re: Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without a network connection

#2

Post by theycallmeg » Thu, Jan 22, 2015, 2:03 PM UTC

Started as a weekend project but took me almost two weeks. Please share any feedback.

Re: Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without a network connection

#3

Post by akileos » Thu, Jan 22, 2015, 2:36 PM UTC

Seems like it doesn't handle non responding links/webservers. Crash report sent.

Re: Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without a network connection

#4

Post by SmokeyThompson » Thu, Jan 22, 2015, 2:37 PM UTC

theycallmeg wrote: post #2

Started as a weekend project but took me almost two weeks. Please share any feedback.

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 a network connection

#5

Post by appenin » Thu, Jan 22, 2015, 2:42 PM UTC

theycallmeg wrote: post #2

Started as a weekend project but took me almost two weeks. Please share any feedback.

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 a network connection

#6

Post by theycallmeg » Thu, Jan 22, 2015, 2:42 PM UTC

akileos wrote: post #3

Seems like it doesn't handle non responding links/webservers. Crash report sent.

Thanks for reporting, does it work for other links?

Re: Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without a network connection

#7

Post by jkot » Thu, Jan 22, 2015, 2:48 PM UTC

How does it compare to existing stuff such as HTTrack ?

Re: Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without a network connection

#8

Post by kofalt » Thu, Jan 22, 2015, 2:49 PM UTC

theycallmeg wrote: post #2

Started as a weekend project but took me almost two weeks. Please share any feedback.

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 a network connection

#9

Post by jarcane » Thu, Jan 22, 2015, 2:50 PM UTC

Anyone else remember when this was a standard feature in a lot of desktop browsers? Or am I crazy.

Re: Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without a network connection

#10

Post by akileos » Thu, Jan 22, 2015, 2:51 PM UTC

theycallmeg wrote: post #6

akileos wrote: post #3

Seems like it doesn't handle non responding links/webservers. Crash report sent.

Thanks for reporting, does it work for other links?

Seems to be fine so far, doesn't seem to be resuming download upon stop/restart, might be only me :)

Thanks for the dev so far, looks pretty good.