Lars Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have used wwwoffle for a long time now and enjoyed it.
> When I revisited a web page a soon time ago, it came
> to my mind that it might be possible to store older
> versions in the cache and to be able to select between
> different versions of the same web page like at
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk
>
> How could that work?
With great difficulty.
One problem that I have been alerted to is that if WWWOFFLE is used to
fetch a page from web.archive.org then it will fail. The reason for
this is that the pages in the archive include some Javascript. This
modifies all of the links when the page is loaded so that a browser
will get a specific URL from web.archive.org and not the one that is
listed in the HTML. Unfortunately this is broken for links in the
original page that use Javascript functions.
The other problem is that the webarchive actively goes out and fetches
pages from websites so that it has a consistent set for a given date.
If you tried doing this with the pages that you browse with WWWOFFLE
you would have an inconsistent set of pages, images and links.
A webarchiving program like webarchive.org would be a useful tool if
it was released as free software. I don't think that adding these
functions to WWWOFFLE is going to produce that. WWWOFFLE is, and I
intend it to remain, a proxy that you can use offline, it is not a web
archive.
--
Andrew.
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Andrew M. Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
WWWOFFLE users page:
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.7/user.html
