[WEB4LIB] MSIE's "Web Archive" feature

[Nancy Sosna Bohm]

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
>