How does it compare to existing stuff such as HTTrack ?
I didn't know of HTTrack before, I'll check it out and let you know.
Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without a network connection
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Re: Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without a network connection
#12Started 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).
It's not a bug, it's a feature :) I just hate that I can't exit the browser with a back button, but I may be the only one.
Re: Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without a network connection
#13Anyone else remember when this was a standard feature in a lot of desktop browsers? Or am I crazy.
Maybe we're speaking about different things but I remember in IE you could save the page + it would save a certain number of links deep from that page.
Re: Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without a network connection
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
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).
It's not a bug, it's a feature :) I just hate that I can't exit the browser with a back button, but I may be the only one.
I don't know if it's reasonable to ask this, but it would be cool to have an option to swap them around?
I guess I'll always be assuming it behaves like Firefox, so I'm tripping myself up a lot.
Either way, very cool app.
Re: Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without a network connection
#15Anyone else remember when this was a standard feature in a lot of desktop browsers? Or am I crazy.
You are not. I hate how browsers nowadays, especially browsers on smartphones, are unusable without access to Internet. Sure, there is Pocket for instance, but IMHO there shouldn't be need for such app. And while I'm ranting at Pocket - there is still no automated login for LWN.net. (I know I can go with manual way, but still...)
P.S. I'm thinking about making nice dedicated cross-platform LWN.net articles & comments reader one day (well, maybe more), but it's hard to squeeze out enough time for that kind of fiddling (unless it's really a gravely matter, but it isn't here).
Re: Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without a network connection
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not a bug, it's a feature :) I just hate that I can't exit the browser with a back button, but I may be the only one.
I don't know if it's reasonable to ask this, but it would be cool to have an option to swap them around? I guess I'll always be assuming it behaves like Firefox, so I'm tripping myself up a lot. Either way, very cool app.
It should be easy to add that option, I hope it will be in the next version.
Re: Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without a network connection
#17Anyone else remember when this was a standard feature in a lot of desktop browsers? Or am I crazy.
You are not. I hate how browsers nowadays, especially browsers on smartphones, are unusable without access to Internet. Sure, there is Pocket for instance, but IMHO there shouldn't be need for such app. And while I'm ranting at Pocket - there is still no automated login for LWN.net. (I know I can go with manual way, but still...) P.S. I'm thinking about making nice dedicated cross-platform LWN.net articles & comments…
What about appcache manifest, service workers in chrome, and hood.ie? There's ways to make the web work offline.
Re: Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without a network connection
#18How does it compare to existing stuff such as HTTrack ?
HTTrack is how I passed web design 101 way back in the day.
Re: Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without a network connection
#19Started 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.
We didn't, I've been using Offline Browser[1] for quite a while now. This does seem more polished, though.
[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.nikodroid.o...
Re: Show HN: Offline – Access your favorite websites without a network connection
#20Doesn't the stock Android browser do this? At least I know it offers me a "save for offline reading" option