[whatwg] Save a web page

[Edmund Lai]

All I am asking is that if the browser saves the page, fire a onSave
event first.

If they don't support saving the page, then the onSave event will not fire.

On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 17:14:58 +0200, Anne van Kesteren (fora)
<fora at annevankesteren.nl> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Every browser has a save page as command, however last time I looked
> > at opera and safari, they just save the original source, with DOM and
> > even more with WF2, the content is a lot more dynamic, and saving the
> > source won't do. Mozilla does try to save the current content, but has
> > bugs on it. It also does not save what you typed into the text fields.
> >
> > They should fix this regardless of WF2.
> >
> > However, bug fix is not sufficient because we have Javascript
> > variables that may have changed.
> >
> > If we have a onSave event, then the application can move these
> > variables to some place where it will be saved when the web page is
> > actually being saved.
> 
> I think this is outside the scope of this specification. Whether or not
> a browser will let you save a page is up to the browser vendor, how they
> support is up to them as well.
> 
> 
> --
>   Anne van Kesteren
>   <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
> 
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