Just another revolutionary idea: You know those times, there you are, offline, going down a long page, clicking on each of the 143 links you hope WWWOFFLE(tm)(r) will get next time you connect. No, you don't want all the links, certainly not those in the footer, and not really all those in the body, but still, I'd say we clicked a good 60 times on this 'Bob's list of margarine recipe links' page we discovered last time on line.
Each time you click, your browser goes thru all this fuss to make show you a new page with a "wwwoffle will get" message. You have told Andrew but he reminded you that that's life in HTML land. Anyways, how about somebody write a little program that will take a web page and festoon onto it little buttons, i mean radio boxes [?] next to each link, just like the delete options pages... so we quickly "add the items to our shopping cart" with no delay, and then finally hit the big "checkout" button at bottom, registering our requests all at once with wwwoffle, instead of "bleeding"[? experimental usage of UK slang by me] link at a time, just like when we hit the 'delete selected' button instead of each DEL link. Or maybe no festooning is needed, and the same links we see would have the 'shopping cart' quality instead of real link quality, with only a added checkout button at bottom. Hopefully I won't have to turn on javascript to use it. Anyways, I don't know HTML forms, so one of you guys write it please. OK, if after 2 weeks nobody has, maybe I will. hmm, one way of using it might be $ wwwoffle -o http://nerdsburg.com/|festooner > nerd.html $ lynx nerd.html That way we needn't bother Andrew to stick it into wwwoffle, as I'm not clear how he would anyway... wait: a link at the bottom: Monitor|Index|Configure|Festoon] Actually, festoon is a bad name. BTW, the last link on the page should be Index, which I can get to fast with the END key in lynx. -- http://www.geocities.com/jidanni/ Taiwan(04)25854780
