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Posted by Cassius
Sep 16, 2007 at 05:02 AM
On its Web site, it is claimed that with InfoSelect 7, “You can make ANY webpage available offline and review it while not connected to the Internet.”
Has anyone had experience with this claim?
Many thanks!
-c
Posted by MsJulie
Sep 16, 2007 at 05:56 PM
Like many other things in InfoSelect, saving the webpage for off-line viewing does work “after a fashion.”
I didn’t even know about this feature until I read your post, so I decided to try it out. It is implemented as a button that acts as a toggle. It is located in the top part of the frame. It will save the whole page—and what ever you can see on the page using the InfoSelect browser. I did note that when I tried it with MapQuest, I could not see the map of the address I had inputted—but I did get a message that I must have JavaScript and cookies turned on. Well, I do in Explorer and I don’t quite know how to mess with InfoSelect to get it to do this. All I ever seem to be able to do is work around the many quirks of InfoSelect to get it to do what I want it to do.
If you are thinking of getting InfoSelect, let me assure you that my installation of it crashes regularly. A day without an InfoSelect crash is a day without sunshine—I must have a long file history at Micro Logic, but I don’t think they care about crashes anymore.
I am not a programmer, but I do suspect that what causes a lot of these crashes is how InfoSelect interacts with HTML. Getting in HTML e-mail brings my copy of InfoSelect to its knees—my system processes start churning and InfoSelect just hangs until I put it out of its misery. So, I would suspect that this feature in which InfoSelect freezes a webpage, is going to eventually mean heart ache because of the HTML involved.
I did not experiment that much—and I won’t be using it, because I would much rather save parts of webpages for off-line viewing rather than the whole thing. The feature as implemented in InfoSelect will only save the entire page—advertisements and all.