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Download a working local copy of a webpage

I would like to download a local copy of a web page and get all of the css, images, javascript, etc. In previous discussions (e.g. here and here, both of which are more than two years old), two suggestions are generally put forward: wget -p and…
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Does Chrome have a "Work Offline" option?

I'm trying to test out my fallback page in my html5 cache manifest. I'd rather not have to actually disconnect from the internet in order to do it. I've heard that it doesn't work quite right in Chrome, so I need to test it specifically. Does Chrome…
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MDN javascript docs for offline use

I am trying to make MDN's Javascript Reference available for offline browsing (personal use). I am not the website's owner nor developer, and I can only access its generated output. My first thought was to inject an HTML5 appcache.manifest in the…
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iOS: Did Apple disable HTML5 offline capability for web apps saved to the home screen?

I've been doing lots of work in getting a few web apps to work offline on iOS using the HTML5 manifest. I've ran across the typical problems everyone else has and fixed them and everything seems to be working fine—except in the case where I save the…
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Once an HTML document has a manifest (cache.manifest), how can you remove it?

It seems that once you have a manifest entry, a la: Then that page (the master entry in the cache) will always be cached (at least by Safari) until the user does something to remove the cache, even if you later…
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Is there a way to use a CDN (for jQuery) and have an offline Web app (via HTML5 manifests)?

I'm beginning to look at HTML5s ability to allow for offline Web applications. A while back I found that using a CDN worked well for my applications, so I've been sticking with them, mostly just for jQuery. However, it doesn't appear that manifest…
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Is it OK to include external files in cache-manifest?

I'm building an offline web application and want to use cache-manifest. Currently my cache-manifest looks like this: CACHE MANIFEST # Change the version number below each time we update a resource. # Rev…
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How to sync offline HTML5 webdatabase with centralised database

I'd like to be able to do the following in a HTML5 (iPad) web app: upload data to an online database (which would be probably <50Mb in size if I was to build the online database in something like SQLite) extract either a subset or a full copy of…
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Vuetify Offline Docs

I have started using Vuetify to add ui-components and use pre-defined layouts. The problem is that I have to look into online-docs every now and then, and requires me to be connected to internet perpetually. Is there a way to get offline docs for…
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Strategies to make a web application available offline?

We're currently building a web app (Django, Ember), and we just found that most of our potential customers require sporadic offline access to the application. What we need is not just "presenting" the app so user can navigate, caching stuff in the…
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Can the new HTML5 manifest.cache file contain paths to directories?

When utilizing the HTML5 ability to specify if/how files are cached (in the manifest.cache file), are specifying entire directories possible? Can I place a path to my images directory under the CACHE: section and have it apply to all files in that…
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Offline apps with Node.JS and CouchDB

I have an app that I would like to create. But I am not sure how to go about it. I am using node.js and would like to use couchdb, but if something like mongodb or riak would be a better choice them im willing to hear ideas. But, i have a site,…
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How can one download Mozilla's developer's documentation for offline reading?

Until recently, one could conveniently download Mozilla's developer's documentation, developer.mozilla.org.tar.gz, for offline reading. However, Mozilla seems to have upgraded the documentation to a new, SQL-based format, abandoning the old…
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Save dynamic PHP page for offline viewing

I have a PHP page foo.php that pulls records from a MySQL database and displays them in a nice way. The tricky part is I have links at the top like "Sort by Name" that link to foo.php?sort=name. My general question is if I have several POST…
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How to detect if browser is offline in 2018?

There used to exist offline.js for detection of a connection, but that project is no longer maintained. Also, the browser's 'navigator.onLine' property is notoriously unreliable. What is the best/most up-to-date method to use to actively detect the…
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