downloading pages using Safari
newbie question alert: Well, I'm not really a newbie - but I am quite ignorant of HTML stuff and internet protocols. Anyway...
When I save a web page using Safari, it does not save any pictures or graphs and I find this frustrating. Am I doing something wrong - or am I expecting too much from a web browser?
I remember using the Scrapbook feature in IE and it preserved images correctly, yet Safari seems to ignore them when saving to a desktop. I do this so I can read articles at my leisure later on when not connected to the web.
Any help greatly appreciated.
I'd like to insert an example web page that I downloaded, but when I click on the image button it asks for text to be formatted? I don't get this - please dumb it down for me!
When I save a web page using Safari, it does not save any pictures or graphs and I find this frustrating. Am I doing something wrong - or am I expecting too much from a web browser?
I remember using the Scrapbook feature in IE and it preserved images correctly, yet Safari seems to ignore them when saving to a desktop. I do this so I can read articles at my leisure later on when not connected to the web.
Any help greatly appreciated.
I'd like to insert an example web page that I downloaded, but when I click on the image button it asks for text to be formatted? I don't get this - please dumb it down for me!
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Originally posted by burningwheel
i don't believe Safari can save a page as a web acrhive like IE, which saves the pictures. it would be nice if Safari did this
Absolutely - I sort of thought that all web browsers would be capable of this ... although my only experience is with IE and Safari.
Anyway, is this something only I would like? Surely there must be more than one person who thinks this would be a good feature. Or do most people simply not download info from the web like I do?
Just did the usual Ctrl-click (i.e the equivalent of pc right-click) and hit "save page as".
Pictures/photos and such were all intact.
I'm still only using a beta of safari, but can't be bothered to change it yet.
Originally posted by david101
I saved a web page perfectly happily using safari the other day.
Just did the usual Ctrl-click (i.e the equivalent of pc right-click) and hit "save page as".
Pictures/photos and such were all intact.
I'm still only using a beta of safari, but can't be bothered to change it yet.
Well, I'm using Verion 1.0(v85) and it doesn't save pictures - but I never recalled it saving pictures whenI I was running the beta version either.
Hmm - what gives? (anybody else with similar problems?)
wget -p "http://thewebsite/page";
Like if I wanted to get Yahoo.com, I would do
wget -p "http://www.yahoo.com/";
wget saves the HTML pages with images into a directory, and any browser can open it.
btw, you can download wget from
http://www.myersdaily.org/joseph/not...re/wget.tar.gz
(108 KB)
(Note, you have to type the actual file name of wget in order to use this command, unless you mess with $PATH and all that stuff. For example, if you download wget to your desktop, and then put wget into your Home folder, then you would have to type "~/wget -p http://www.yahoo.com/")
(If you want to do it the easier way, then copy wget, after you have opened it, into the hidden folder /usr/bin . Then you won't need to type anything except "wget -p blahblahblah")
Sorry, I'm a programmer, so I always think of the easiest way of doing things--but it's the hardest. :-)
Originally posted by Mac+
Well, I'm using Verion 1.0(v85) and it doesn't save pictures - but I never recalled it saving pictures whenI I was running the beta version either.
Hmm - what gives? (anybody else with similar problems?)
Just tried to save a page control/click and right click on my mouse when pages were reopened they didnt embed the images like a waff web archive file ... I HATE to say this but my exeperience shows me IE does have one up on Safari in this respect. I use this function a lot and find my self jumping between not wanting to support M$ , loving tabbed browsing and not getting all I need from safari... but then Im runnining Safari 1.0(v74) so who knows.
Also having problem down loading images onto desktop with a preview icon with safari works perfectly in IE... damn this all... where's Opera....
Celco I hear you buddy... I feel the same way in terms of wishing Safari would do it all and acknowledging at the same time that IE has it beat in some regards.
cookies Excellent research and thanks for it.
Originally posted by david101
I saved a web page perfectly happily using safari the other day.
Just did the usual Ctrl-click (i.e the equivalent of pc right-click) and hit "save page as".
Pictures/photos and such were all intact.
Originally posted by burningwheel
If you Save As and then open the the resulting html file while still online, the pictures load.
Originally posted by josephg
If you Save As and then open the the resulting html file while still online, the pictures load.
I think some of you are missing the point. This function does not save the pictures and linked media *locally*. If they load at all from the saved file, it's because they still have the full path linking back to the originating server.
Safari only saves the HTML.
Originally posted by Brad
I think some of you are missing the point. This function does not save the pictures and linked media *locally*. If they load at all from the saved file, it's because they still have the full path linking back to the originating server.
Safari only saves the HTML.
Yeah, that's exactly what I meant.
At the same time, I'm embarrassed to admit that I did not discover it (or, if I did, I neglected to report it as a bug) during the beta release!
Originally posted by Mac+
Brad - If what you say is correct, then how come IE can save the images? Wouldn't this be a simple thing for Apple's engineers to implement? It sounds like a blatant oversight on a proper release of web browser software. I'm sort of surprised that this sort of thing was not discovered earlier in the development phase.
At the same time, I'm embarrassed to admit that I did not discover it (or, if I did, I neglected to report it as a bug) during the beta release!
it would be easy to Apple to implement i suspect. you can still report bugs to apple
(just wanted to confirm that I wasn't the only one experiencing this problem)