Re: idea: anchor-visited-begin
amb-Uxr6IM1mbv2TY6FTCsQk+9Bc4/[email protected] (Andrew M. Bishop)
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Dan Jacobson <[email protected]> writes: > New feature wish: > [<URL-SPEC>] anchor-visited-begin = (HTML code) | > Anchors (links) in the spooled page that are in the cache and have > been visited this session or since invoking wwwoffle > --reset-visited-timeline are to have the specified HTML inserted at > the beginning (default=""). > > Rationale: anchor-cached-begin is nice, but one wants to know what has > also been browsed already. Browsers these days can differentiate > between visited and not visited, but are not able to limit that to > start just at the beginning of this session, unless you blow away > their history list[?] The browser is much better placed to keep track of the pages that you have visited today than WWWOFFLE is. 1) Not all pages that you visit today cause requests to be made to WWWOFFLE because the browser's cached version may be new enough. 2) Web servers find it very hard to know which user is requesting each page. The computer that the network connection comes from is not enough (in general). 3) WWWOFFLE keeps no information in memory about what has been visited, it is just a waste of space. -- Andrew. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew M. Bishop amb-Uxr6IM1mbv2TY6FTCsQk+9Bc4/[email protected] http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/ WWWOFFLE users page: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.8/user.html