Posted by Gary Rosenzweig on 10/16/09.
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Gary Rosenzweig looks at three ways to save and view Web pages outside of Safari, from his new book the MacMost.com Guide to Switching to the Mac.
Video Transcript (Click to Expand)
Hi this is Gary with MacMost Now. In today’s episode, let’s look at saving web pages from Safari. So in Chapter 10 of my book, The MacMost.com Guide to Switching to the Mac, I talk about saving web pages out of Safari. There’s several different ways to do this. If you find a webpage that you really like, you can save the page using the File- Save As menu command. You get two choice from there- Page Source or Web Archive. The first saves text and basic layout of the page, but not the graphics. The second attempts to save every graphic element on the page. With some more advanced webpages, even the web archive can miss a few things, and your saved page may not look exactly the same as the original. The total contents of the webpage are saved to a single file which can be opened in Safari. So Web Archive is probably the best way to go, in most cases. You can also choose File-Mail The Contents of This Page to send a Web Archive to someone else. Now how the final page is going to look really depends on what mail program they use. Now another option is to save the page, or at least part of it, as a web clipping. You can do this with File- Open In Dashboard. And then you select part of the page, like this video here, and add it to the dashboard. So that’s called a web clipping, and I take a closer look at web clippings in Chapter 6 of the book. So there are three different ways to export pages from Safari. The first two of course are exporting static pages, although if there are dynamic elements on the page, like, say that YouTube video always updates, it will actually be updated in the saved document. And of course the third way, web clippings, will always update and show you the latest version of that segment from the page. So that’s a quick look at a small section from my book. Till next time, this is Gary Rosenzweig with MacMost Now.
Hi this is Gary with MacMost Now. In today’s episode, let’s look at saving web pages from Safari. So in Chapter 10 of my book, The MacMost.com Guide to Switching to the Mac, I talk about saving web pages out of Safari. There’s several different ways to do this. If you find a webpage that you really like, you can save the page using the File- Save As menu command. You get two choice from there- Page Source or Web Archive. The first saves text and basic layout of the page, but not the graphics. The second attempts to save every graphic element on the page. With some more advanced webpages, even the web archive can miss a few things, and your saved page may not look exactly the same as the original. The total contents of the webpage are saved to a single file which can be opened in Safari. So Web Archive is probably the best way to go, in most cases. You can also choose File-Mail The Contents of This Page to send a Web Archive to someone else. Now how the final page is going to look really depends on what mail program they use. Now another option is to save the page, or at least part of it, as a web clipping. You can do this with File- Open In Dashboard. And then you select part of the page, like this video here, and add it to the dashboard. So that’s called a web clipping, and I take a closer look at web clippings in Chapter 6 of the book. So there are three different ways to export pages from Safari. The first two of course are exporting static pages, although if there are dynamic elements on the page, like, say that YouTube video always updates, it will actually be updated in the saved document. And of course the third way, web clippings, will always update and show you the latest version of that segment from the page. So that’s a quick look at a small section from my book. Till next time, this is Gary Rosenzweig with MacMost Now.
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