[WEB4LIB] MSIE's "Web Archive" feature

Nancy Sosna Bohm plum at ulink.net
Tue Apr 18 02:30:58 EDT 2000


Yes, I've been using it too and wondered why people were still talking about
Web Whacker....
Hope the Web Whacker folks don't feel like they've been Netscaped by MS.


----- Original Message -----
From: Roy Tennant <rtennant at library.berkeley.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 1:21 PM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] MSIE's "Web Archive" feature


> I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned a cool feature of MSIE 5.0 for
> the Mac. MSIE now has the same capability of "Web Whacker" and other
> downloading tools that allow you to download a web site for offline
> browsing. I've already used it to grab sites for talks when I don't want
> to bet the farm on a net connection or use static screen shots.
>
> It saves all the files in one file, which may be why it calls it an
> "archive", since you will not be able to edit it once it's saved that way.
> But that makes it very handy for offline browsing, since a double-click on
> the archive will dump you into the screen where you began downloading and
> you can then use the web site as if you were online until you reach the
> number of levels deep you crawled.
>
> For those of you who have it, it is simply another "Save as..."
> option, and you can specify how many levels deep (up to five but don't get
> greedy!) and whether to remain on one server or not. Check it out,
> Roy Tennant
>



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