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Re: Creating Text Notes From Safari Script
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Re: Creating Text Notes From Safari Script


  • Subject: Re: Creating Text Notes From Safari Script
  • From: has <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 19:48:17 +0000

Johnny AppleScript wrote:

Just thought we'd contribute a script we slapped together to quell
frustration with Safari's inability to drag-n-drop selected text to a Text
Clipping,

No drag-n-drop is decidedly odd. Have you reported this? That'd be the best thing to do.


We're also looking for, or need to write a script that will emulate MSIE 5's
'Scrapbook' feature; we need to be able to save complete, working pages,
including user-entered form content.

Emulating IE's all-in-one-file and retained-form-data features with AS is probably impossible; the rest difficult. You'd have to:

- parse the html file
- rewrite all relative paths in href attributes as absolute
- extract paths from <script>, <style>, <img>, <object>, etc. tags
- download those files (avoiding any filename conflicts) to a new folder alongside the saved html file
- rewrite the aforementioned paths as relative links to the newly-downloaded files.

Then there's dependencies and links in downloaded .js and .css files to consider... maybe other things too. Frankly, I'd recommend sticking with IE/Netscape/Chimera/whatever for this task, even if you do use Safari the rest of the time. Your best choice would be one which saves everything as ordinary files: these will open in Safari, whereas IE's proprietary format won't.

has
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