This patch won't save video, at least not flash video. In fact, it
does exactly what Firefox's 'save complete web page' functionality
does.

It may save video in html5 <video> tags for offline use, but I haven't
tested that. If it works with Firefox, it should work with this as
well.

2009/11/9 Caroline Meeks <carol...@solutiongrove.com>:
> Sorry, I missed this email when I sent the other one.  A use case I'm
> working on today is grabbing a video when I'm online, sharing it with
> students for them to watch at home when I'm offline. Do I need this patch to
> enable this use case also?
>
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Lucian Branescu <lucian.brane...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Forgot the first time, I've looked at a book from that link and it's a
>> .zip file with some html inside, but there's no index.html file. There
>> is a start.html file (which I assume is the entry point), but as it is
>> right now, the user would have to click start.html after the .zip file
>> is loaded. I could add 'start.html' to the list of entry points to
>> look for if it's an important enough use case.
>
> Yes please add support for start.html.  There a millions of books available
> on the internet, but I think this is one of the few resources that provides
> books that would be useful to a dyslectic second grader who reads below
> grade level.  And Sugar is the only platform who believes that that user is
> important use case for eBooks. ;)
> Thank you!!
>
>>
>> 2009/11/9 Caroline Meeks <solutiongr...@gmail.com>:
>> > This sounds great! I've been trying to get the zip files of books from
>> > CAST
>> > to work. Will this patch fix it for me?  What is the easiest way for me
>> > to
>> > try it? Is there a VM appliance?
>> > Here is a link to the books I'm trying to get to
>> > work: http://bookbuilder.cast.org/model.php
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> > Caroline
>> >
>> > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Lucian Branescu
>> > <lucian.brane...@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> The second point in this ticket http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/971
>> >> I've made a patch against the latest Browse, but trac doesn't let me
>> >> post it (apparently I'm a bot).
>> >>
>> >> Besides being able to save pages for offline use, this patch will also
>> >> allow distribution of HTML content in .zip files that have an
>> >> 'index.html' inside. Browse will happily open such files (but they may
>> >> need certain metadata).
>> >>
>> >> Patch attached.
>> >>
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>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Caroline Meeks
>> > Solution Grove
>> > carol...@solutiongrove.com
>> >
>> > 617-500-3488 - Office
>> > 505-213-3268 - Fax
>> >
>
>
>
> --
> Caroline Meeks
> Solution Grove
> carol...@solutiongrove.com
>
> 617-500-3488 - Office
> 505-213-3268 - Fax
>
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