Well, I'm back and...
...not only did I cough up the 9,95 for the November-sale OmniWeb, albeit I don't even have a Mac to run the latest version (I have a sweet spot for this browser, dunno why)...
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Originally Posted by Forrest
I just tried it in Firefox, it doesn't work. If the page is very simple, I'm sure it probably works. I rarely says absolutes, but I would say it's impossible for such a feature to be reliable.
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... I did also dust off my b/w G3 (running Jaguar, which is why I can't run OW 5.5) and saved more than half a dozen web pages (w/images) in Firefox (0.9!), transferred the folders and files to a Windoze machine and looked at them (while offline) in IE (6) and others. All but one (my Gmail inbox, I didn't seriously expect that to save correctly) showed up with the content intact. This included the Omnigroup homepage and the OmniWeb features page. The page layout sometimes wasn't reproduced like the original, but I don't care for that. And I know that Opera would have saved it even better.
The main reason for the request was cross-platform and future accessibiltiy. It's the same reason why I prefer to keep my notes in plain-text. Web archives are a joke. PDFs are something completely different than the page itself. I'm used to dig into the source code of pages I've saved and add remarks or do other adjustments (I somtimes even run search-replace operations, to correct errors; this is not about all-English pages, after all). I can't do that with PDFs. And if I try to save/print as an A4 PDF, more often than not the margins of the page will be cut off. I had actually
started with trying to archive everything as PDF, but soon abandoned that way.
So I want to uphold my request: Please add a feature that saves web pages as individual files together with their adjacent images etc.
T.