[Camino] Re: saving the URL

[Ruth Rickard]

 From Ricky:

>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154580
>
:)

I looked through this bug comment list - not quite sure if I 
understood what was going on - but it seems people wanted this 
feature some years ago but that idea seems to have faded from the 
scene. Is that right?

My friend responded to Ricky's post with the following, which I quote 
below in case it throws some more light on what he wants, for which 
someone here may have a solution.

Ruth

>  That's the best I've come across outside Explorer and maybe Firefox 
>(see below), but no, it isn't good enough. For one thing, it doesn't 
>solve the problem of what to do if you want to give a reference to a 
>page that is no longer live, which can and does happen. And it also 
>means (I presume) that you can't get at the URL if you don't have a 
>functioning connection to the internet at that time.
>
>I put a message some time ago on a Firefox forum and was told about 
>a Firefox extension called Scrapbook. This saves the URL but it also 
>insists on saving all files in a special Scrapbook folder rather 
>than in ordinary folders. There may be a way round this (it is a 
>problem for me because it interferes with my filing system and my 
>backup system) but I haven't yet spent enough time with Scrapbook to 
>find out.
>
>What I find strange is that (for once) Microsoft have produced a 
>simple, practical solution to what is (for me) an everyday problem, 
>and all the other products involve complicated and clumsy 
>work-arounds of one kind or another. If you want to cite a web page 
>in a scholarly publication, you need to cite the full URL and the 
>date of downloading. Explorer does this, no fuss, no problems (other 
>than the fact that Explorer is not being supported for OS X past the 
>present outdated version). None of the others do.
>
>Firefox (normal version, not using Scrapbook) does have one 
>advantage over Explorer when it comes to saving pages. If you save a 
>page in Firefox, it saves all the associated files in a folder 
>rather than in an archive file like Explorer. This means that if you 
>want to get at a picture or mp3 file associated with a page, you can 
>do it. With Explorer, you have to save it separately, and this isn't 
>always possible (particularly with mp3 files).





>On Apr 3, 2006, at 2:17 PM, Joshua Root wrote:
>
>>ruth at ruthrickard.com wrote:
>>>A Mac-owning friend, now using Firefox, is seeking a browser that when
>>>he saves a page will save the URL with it. I see that Camino saves the
>>>title of the page, but not the URL. Is there some way to change this?
>>
>>Probably not what you want to hear, but OmniWeb puts the URL of files it
>>downloads in the comments field of the "Get Info" window. Camino could no
>>doubt be patched to do the same, but I have no idea how easy or difficult it
>>would be.
>>
>>- Josh
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