The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #145254   Message #3361106
Posted By: JohnInKansas
08-Jun-12 - 08:10 PM
Thread Name: Tech: Viewing web pages while offline
Subject: RE: Tech: Viewing web pages while offline
For "browsing off line" as indicated up there at the top, I would think you'd want to put any/all of the offline stuff where it's easy to dump. That's one of my reasons for NOT USING the built-in options, since they sometimes create obscure folders with hashed names and weird "attributes" that make it a puzzle to know what you can get rid of and what's actually something useful.

For some reason, mudcat seems to "remember" that any thread I save from the 'cat should go in my "\mudcat\something" folder. I probably should worry that "Max knows" but I prefer to think maybe he'll just ask me if I've got a copy if something ever gets lost here ... (which of course could never happen).

None of the other sites where I occasionally save something seems to have that level of sophisticated intelligence.

Occasionally, if you really want to "save" something and want to save the URL (and/or links on the page) an easy way is just to print it with printer options set to "print table of links," but often that turns a 2-page print into 10 or 15 pages. If you've set your headers/footers right in your browser, you can get the URL you printed from in a footer, but it's often truncated so it's not all there.

It would be convenient if the "print to pdf" driver had the "links" option, but I haven't found it except for the paper eating printers (although I haven't looked very hard).

John