[Drayon]

OFFLINE MODE - OFFLINE MODE - OFFLINE MODE

So many years have past since IE introduced OFFLINE MODE yet no other Browser on the Mac actually has this vital element that actually works.

So many times do i find myself in a situation where i have brief net access in a remote location for a very limited time. I attempt to load all the pages so then i can go back to my room an spend hours viewing the information. Yet this is impossible on the Mac!!!

[Forrest]

The cache tip here may be of use: http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthre...ighlight=cache

That statement, however, is no longer accurate (well, sort of.) They now have it so it does restore form data.

I think there's some other threads on this as well.

[Drayon]

Originally Posted by Forrest

The cache tip here may be of use: http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthre...ighlight=cache

That statement, however, is no longer accurate (well, sort of.) They now have it so it does restore form data.

I think there's some other threads on this as well.

This does NOT work PERIOD!!

Load any page while on the net. Turn your machine off go back to anbother loaction with no net and select a page from the history menu, OmniWeb like Safari will report

'cant load address because its not connected to the internet'

This is my worst nightmare a browser that loads hundreds of megabytes of content to the hard disk yet cannot access ANYTHING when a connection is not present. This is the dark ages of the internet, geesus my 1997 Mac OS 7.6.1 machine with iCab could do this. As is proved time and again the Mac is useless on the WWW compared to Windows browsers.

[Forrest]

Originally Posted by Drayon

This does NOT work PERIOD!!

Load any page while on the net. Turn your machine off go back to anbother loaction with no net and select a page from the history menu, OmniWeb like Safari will report

Well, I just tried that tip with OW and it worked fine. I created a new workspace, set it to auto-save while browsing and went to a page. Then I quit OW, ran the command in the terminal and turned off airport (my only connection to the network.) Then I launched OW and the same came back up without error.

As is proved time and again the Mac is useless on the WWW compared to Windows browsers.

If you actually want help, keep your snide remarks to yourself. That said, I wouldn't want to save a fool from his folly...

[Drayon]

Well it doesn't WORK here.

In Terminal

defaults write com.omnigroup.OmniWeb5 WorkspacesLoadFromCache -bool true

In OmniWeb

Created workspace entitled "Offline Mode" , enabled Autosave. Placed my window and resized to my preference took a snapshot. Loaded a site, clicked links, hit back button clicked other links, back button, clicked more links back button, created a new tab clicked links, hit back button click links clicked back button, did so for several more newly created tabs.

Quit Omniweb.

Shutdown machine. Restarted with not network cable connected. Launched OW, workspace loaded window with all Tabs and LAST VIEWED content. Clicked on visited links :

Error

Cannot Load Address Stopped loading : no Internet connection

In Internet Exploder for Windows.

Load all the pages and sites you want disconnect from web Select "Offline Mode" in File Menu, click on any previous link or select anything from the history menu, every page loads without issue an without.

How Hard can it be on the Mac?

Wouldn't it be useful if u set Mail.app to "Offline" mode and suddenly you couldn't read ANY message because everything loaded a blank message? Great ..... NOT!!

Mac browsing still sux IMO.

[Forrest]

Can you provide a link to the site you tried it on? I have a feeling the pages may be dynamically generated and OW does distinguish between the two.