[Maf] A page MAF cannot save

[Clint Hamilton (FireFox accounts)]

The "Success message" box's behavior I find a bit annoying.
IMO I think the better way would be a success message box that
you DON'T HAVE to close, one that will close after a couple of
seconds, and if failure the appropriate message box then you
*DO* have to close.  We all know we have enough prompt keys and
"OK"s, etc., that we already have to click hundreds of times on
a daily basis.  The success message box *is* a good idea
however since on IE for example when you save as a .mht file
you have to always check if the webpage was saved!  IE won't
always save a page in mht format if it has specific types of
frames.  It appears to save the page, but you go to the folder
to where it was saved and it's not there.  I investigate this
and found out it was due to specific types of frames.  If MAF
has this same problem, the success/failure message box is a
good idea, but if successful it should close without user
action.

I can't speak for MAF since I haven't used it enough yet, but
with IE's mht method, a dynamically generated page *is* saved
properly as you see it.  As least in all my attempts (which are
quite a few) that happened.  I fully agree on the progress
indicator, that's really missed on MAF so I 2nd that.  :-)

(BTW, I was able to save that URL in the first post in IE's mht
format).
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/summary/93517905/SUMMARY
-Clint

Happy Holidays to all & God Bless
Clint Hamilton, Owner
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ushakov, Sergey N" <ushakov at int.com.ru>
To: <maf at mozdev.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Maf] A page MAF cannot save


Yes, Christopher, that really helped. All the naughty pages got
saved when
offline. Thanks.

Do you accept wishes for your new release? :)

If yes then these are my first-glance ideas:
- it would be great if archive operation always performed
offline (using
cache data); otherwise we have a risk to save a _different_
page with
different dynamic data...
- it would be great to have a sort of progress indicator - not
necessary a
progress bar, it might be a dialog box, a status line,
whatever - just to
have a clear idea if the MAF operation is still in progress
(and at which
stage if possible); or at least not only a success message box,
but a
failure message box also...

Regards,
Sergey


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Ottley" <xknight at users.sourceforge.net>
To: <maf at mozdev.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Maf] A page MAF cannot save


> The save page download code that MAF uses is a Mozilla
> component.
> Sometimes you have to work offline before you try to save the
> page with
> MAF. I'm working on fixing this for the 0.5.0 release by
> writing a new
> DOM serializer component.
>
> Regards,
> Christopher.
>
> Ushakov, Sergey N wrote:
>
> >Hi, I have come across a page that MAF cannot save:
> > http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/summary/93517905/SUMMARY
> >