On Sat, 29 Nov 1997 03:56:07 EST, Wintermute wrote: > > > > Isn't there some kind of cache software, though? I don't know what > > it's called, but it caches webpages locally, and won't querry the > > remote server unless the page isn't in the cache? What is it called? > > Would it work? > > Well you forced me to pick my brain.. so you asked for it.. > > http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-1.3/user.html > An offline web browser tool that works with several browsers, caches > pages, and marks links that you want to go to (but are not cached) for > later retrieval, and other cool stuff. (Says it works with Netscape too)
This is probably better than what I was asking for because it looks like it's specifically tailored for the diald use, just as I wanted. What I was thinking about was tailored for isp's who have bandwidth issues, thus probably a good bit more work to administer because it's tailored for commercial use. > http://www.isg.de/visualweb/invisible_e.html > Automates the downloading of web pages from a web site. (Sorta like a > crawler in some respects) "the economical way to browse the web" --taken > from the banner of the web page. I considered this crawler idea, but I don't think it quite suits my needs, even if it comes close, though I'm not sure about that, so I'll keep it in mind. > Give these guys a go. The former option even intrigued me... Those are pretty cool, I'm glad I asked you to pick your brain. :-) I think I'll give that wwwoffle a try. Another idea I thought of would be to put diald in normal/off mode with an alias or if I wanted to get fancy I could make a clickable afterstep dock button which changes colors depending on which mode diald is in. Originally I discarded this idea because it requires interaction, which seems to make diald pointless. However it might be good to have both a normal/off button and wwwoffle. That way I could use diald the way I want under ideal conditions and toggle diald normal/off as dialing conditions dictate. David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
