Re: Favorite Font

On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 17:40:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:

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However, the best way to save web pages is to use either "wget" or "curl"
followed, again, by stripping all the javascript an CSS files.

 
I personally at least try to make my website compatible with this, and I
agree that it is nice to be able to wget a single page cleanly. If you
need it, though, theres always the recurse and page-requisites options.
 

Some single pages, such as those published on *overflow, are impossible
to download cleanly with wget or anything else -- and these pages can contain
very important information.  Supposedly, creating an account will allow
downloading but I do not ever desire to have an account with such organizations.

However, in these cases the option to "Print to PDF" can usually save the
day.  But there still may be problems.  Many sub-threads can be concealed
(javascript again!) and these have to be manually opened before saving as a PDF.

The web is -- or at least used to be -- all about disseminating information
and who would not ever want to make a permanent local copy of such information.
Yet many web sites seem to be designed without any regard for clean downloading.

University/academic web sites do actually create PDF files of their web pages
to facilitate downloading but most other sites do not.

Web downloading is absolutely essential.  The web site that you visit today
may be gone tomorrow.  Whenever I encounter an interesting site I will
download immediately because I know that sooner or later it will disappear.
My storage media are filled with sites that used to exist but are no longer
available.

 
I haven't printed in a while.
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If necessary, just take a USB to one the local printing shops.





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