Web browsers and the damnation of HTML files.

stf92 · 12-09-2017, 08:43 PM

The fairest way to ruin a directory is telling the browser to download a web page to it. You'll end up with hundreds of .js, css et alt. in it. Now, Firefox gives you three choices before downloading:

1. Web page, complete
2. Web page, HTML only
3. Text files
4. All files

However, if you want to keep the exact picture you are seing on the screen, you'll have to use option 1. Is there a web browser that saves all of the information in a single file?

EDIT: as I learn in wikipedia there is a solution: MHTML. Neither Firefox not Konqueror supports it. Gnome does. I think there has come the time for a change.

gnashley · 12-10-2017, 04:14 AM

opera used todo this -saving a page completet as a single *.htm(IIRC) file.

fatmac · 12-10-2017, 09:12 AM

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However, if you want to keep the exact picture you are seeing on the screen

Why not take a screenshot(?).

keefaz · 12-10-2017, 10:18 AM

Maybe print page to file (pdf)?

stf92 · 12-10-2017, 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by fatmac

Why not take a screenshot(?).

I would loose the links, of course.

rokytnji · 12-10-2017, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by keefaz

Maybe print page to file (pdf)?

Been rolling like that for ages

Code:

harry@biker:~
$ cd Downloads
harry@biker:~/Downloads
$ ls
lqthread.pdf

Whichever full featured browser you are running should have a print to file option in your toolbar. Somewhere.

fatmac · 12-11-2017, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by stf92

I would loose the links, of course.

Fair enough, but your original post didn't mention that.

AnanthaP · 12-12-2017, 08:32 AM

AFAIR it is always a single file PLUS a single sub-directory (with the same name as the single file as prefix) containing ALL the other information. So in my view, still managable.