On 02 Mar 2006, at 10:45, Alf Eaton wrote:
At the moment when you save a web page, the embedded images, CSS
files, etc are often saved in a folder alongside the HTML file.
There's also the possibility of using special tools to save
everything that's linked from the original page up to a certain
depth (and limited to the same domain, for example). I was thinking
it might be useful to have a microformat (a rel attribute) that
would explicitly say "save this linked file along with the HTML page".
One use in particular is for supplementary data in scientific
papers - the links from a saved paper to the supplementary data
online would obviously still work, but it might be nice to be able
to automatically save everything together in one place, offline.
Has anything like this been proposed before?
Answering myself, the closest I can find is Internet Explorer's use
of <link rel="offline" href=""/> [1], which points to a CDF file that
contains links to the files that should be cached for browsing
offline. If using rel="offline" on <a> tags doesn't break IE's usage,
maybe that would be the best microformat for this situation?
alf.
[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/delivery/offline/linkrel.asp
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