[webkit-dev] Save Page - Ideas

[Darin Fisher]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 7:04 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:

>
> On Oct 30, 2008, at 9:47 AM, Darin Fisher wrote:
>
>
> We have code to support this feature in the Chromium code base.  You can
> find it here:
>
> http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/webkit/glue/dom_serializer.h?view=markup
>
> http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/webkit/glue/dom_serializer.cc?view=markup
>
> It is something we would love to one day see as part of WebKit.
>
>
> WebKit already includes code to serialize the DOM, in
> WebCore/editing/markup.cpp. This is used by innerHTML, XMLSerializer, the
> clipboard code, Web archives, and other things. I think a better approach to
> a "save as Web page, complete" style feature would be to use the existing
> DOM serialization code (fixing bugs, if necessary), instead of adding
> completely separate DOM serialization code. The only tricky part is fixing
> up URL references in the markup to point to the right place for saved
> subresources.
>
> Regards,
> Maciej
>
>

I agree.  I would rather see that happen too.  Our code was created because
we didn't want to fork WebCore, but we are happy to see it die in favor of
enchancements to markup.cpp.  There is more than just fixing up URLs.  We
also need to deal with charset encoding issues, base tags, and motw (for
windows).  There may be a few other subtle details to get right.

-Darin
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