MSIE's "Web Archive" feature

Roy Tennant rtennant at library.berkeley.edu
Mon Apr 17 16:12:08 EDT 2000


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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