[Sugar-devel] Keep offline for Browse (offline bookmarks)

[Lucian Branescu]

For youtube alone, I recommend one of the Youtube download
scripts/extensions. There's even some userscripts and bookmarklets out
there (both features I would like to add to Browse at some point).

This particular patch is very much geared towards taking pure html
content offline, content from plugins (such as Flash player or Java
applets) may or may not work with this, depending on the website.

2009/11/10 Caroline Meeks <caroline at solutiongrove.com>:
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Lucian Branescu <lucian.branescu at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> This patch won't save video, at least not flash video. In fact, it
>> does exactly what Firefox's 'save complete web page' functionality
>> does.
>>
>> It may save video in html5 <video> tags for offline use, but I haven't
>> tested that. If it works with Firefox, it should work with this as
>> well.
>
> It does seem to work in firefox.  For my use case we'll need to be able
> share a page that some (the teacher) has saved.
> Here is the scenario in a school in the US.
> The school district blocks YouTube for example in schools.
> But YouTube has many valuable clips.
> The teacher goes to YouTube at home and pics an educational clip. (e.g.
> Schoolhouse rock) and saves it.
> The teacher shares/sends the browse/bookmark (terminology unclear to me)
> Students can then watch the clip at home where they do not have any internet
> Thanks!
> Caroline
>>
>> 2009/11/9 Caroline Meeks <caroline at solutiongrove.com>:
>> > Sorry, I missed this email when I sent the other one.  A use case I'm
>> > working on today is grabbing a video when I'm online, sharing it with
>> > students for them to watch at home when I'm offline. Do I need this
>> > patch to
>> > enable this use case also?
>> >
>> > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Lucian Branescu
>> > <lucian.branescu at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Forgot the first time, I've looked at a book from that link and it's a
>> >> .zip file with some html inside, but there's no index.html file. There
>> >> is a start.html file (which I assume is the entry point), but as it is
>> >> right now, the user would have to click start.html after the .zip file
>> >> is loaded. I could add 'start.html' to the list of entry points to
>> >> look for if it's an important enough use case.
>> >
>> > Yes please add support for start.html.  There a millions of books
>> > available
>> > on the internet, but I think this is one of the few resources that
>> > provides
>> > books that would be useful to a dyslectic second grader who reads below
>> > grade level.  And Sugar is the only platform who believes that that user
>> > is
>> > important use case for eBooks. ;)
>> > Thank you!!
>> >
>> >>
>> >> 2009/11/9 Caroline Meeks <solutiongrove at gmail.com>:
>> >> > This sounds great! I've been trying to get the zip files of books
>> >> > from
>> >> > CAST
>> >> > to work. Will this patch fix it for me?  What is the easiest way for
>> >> > me
>> >> > to
>> >> > try it? Is there a VM appliance?
>> >> > Here is a link to the books I'm trying to get to
>> >> > work: http://bookbuilder.cast.org/model.php
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks!
>> >> > Caroline
>> >> >
>> >> > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Lucian Branescu
>> >> > <lucian.branescu at gmail.com>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> The second point in this ticket http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/971
>> >> >> I've made a patch against the latest Browse, but trac doesn't let me
>> >> >> post it (apparently I'm a bot).
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Besides being able to save pages for offline use, this patch will
>> >> >> also
>> >> >> allow distribution of HTML content in .zip files that have an
>> >> >> 'index.html' inside. Browse will happily open such files (but they
>> >> >> may
>> >> >> need certain metadata).
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Patch attached.
>> >> >>
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>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > Caroline Meeks
>> >> > Solution Grove
>> >> > Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
>> >> >
>> >> > 617-500-3488 - Office
>> >> > 505-213-3268 - Fax
>> >> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Caroline Meeks
>> > Solution Grove
>> > Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
>> >
>> > 617-500-3488 - Office
>> > 505-213-3268 - Fax
>> >
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>
> --
> Caroline Meeks
> Solution Grove
> Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
>
> 617-500-3488 - Office
> 505-213-3268 - Fax
>