Saving web archives
From time to time I save a web archive of a site for off-line browsing and for future reference in case the site vanishes.
This page - www.gabrielleray.150m.com - can produce a Webloc file, but the Save button is greyed out. It seems peculiar to Safari and this page as I had earlier saved a page from the same site without problem. I have also saved a Web archive from IE (ugh), but it will not open in safari.
Any ideas?
Cheers, Colin
you have longer filenames than this?? - that's what Safari tries to save as....
John Culme's Footlight Notes - Press Clippings of the Week - Opening of the Avenue Theatre, London, 1882 - Alabama<-I>, a play by Augustus Thomas, Garrick Theatre, London, 2 September 1895 - Héro, billed in London as a ‘Parisienne,’ circa 1910 - ‘Nudity’ on the London music hall stage, 1911 - Marie Dressler - ‘a bogus manager’ - in London, 1909 - Week ending 28 September 2002
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# © 2012 McUsr and put in Public Domain under GPL 1.0
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