[webkit-dev] Save Page - Ideas

[Darin Fisher]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:33 AM, David Kilzer <ddkilzer at webkit.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 10/30/08, zaheer ahmad <zaheer.mot at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > iam working on implementing save page functionality. Looks
> > like its not
> > already supported in the core.
>
> Apple's Mac port saves ".webarchive" files.  The format is specific to the
> CoreFoundation framework, but there is platform-specific code that does this
> nevertheless.
>
> > Following are some high
> > level ideas and iam
> > not sure if some or all of these are the right approaches
> > to this problem
> >
> > - write the page data to the file system as and when is
> > received - but this
> > is not optimal since this incurs constant overhead on page
> > load
>
> Don't do this.
>
> > - apis to retreive the source (html, js, css) and
> > image/object data
> > (original form) from the document. I think the
> > parsers/loaders incrementally
> > handle the data and throw off the parsed text - pls
> > validate my
> > understanding here.
>
> There should be API to do this already.  Look at how content for
> .webarchive files is retrieved.
>
> > - parse and convert all the html absolute/relative URIs to
> > relative URIs on
> > the file system
>
> Bug 7211: Support save as "Web page, complete" in Firefox format
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7211


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.

-Darin


<https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7211>
>
> > - any other optimized storage methods - e.g. storing the
> > entire page as a
> > single file using multipart content
>
> Bug 7169: Support exporting of MHTML web archives
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7169
>
> I would strongly encourage you to reuse an existing format rather than
> inventing your own.  (In my opinion the Firefox format is preferred because
> it's readable by all web browsers.)
>
> Dave
>
>
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