On 29 Jan 2011 Harriet Bazley  wrote:

> On 25 Jan 2011 as I do recall,
>           Martin Bazley  wrote:

>> (The full save code really needs rewriting anyway, to organise things in
>> a directory structure with original leafnames intact mimicking the
>> structure of an actual website, simultaneously making it more
>> user-friendly to browse and easier to transcode URLs for
>>
> [snip]

> I don't think that's actually possible:   WebsterXL used to try to do
> just this, and the result was that you got all sorts of directories with
> random image files in appearing *above* the 'full save' you thought
> you'd created.   Unfortunately not all elements of a web page are
> necessarily loaded from levels subsidiary to the actual HTML file.

Not only that, but you might have objects with the same leafnames in 
different directories so you would still need to ensure unique 
filenames. It might help to add the usual filename extensions even 
though they're not needed.

> I find Netsurf's approach - to rewrite the whole thing into a RISC OS
> application structure and enclose an Inventory file listing the original
> sources/names of the files - to be much more useful in practice, and
> more elegant.

Agreed.

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