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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Reading Web sites offline -- without IE7

One useful feature from earlier versions of Internet Explorer has been removed from IE7 -- the ability to save a website in the Favorites list to make it available offline - and I miss it. Firefox does not seem to support offline saves either. Microsoft suggests I save the favourite website a page at a time, which sounds like a dull way to pass a winter or two. Roger Kidley

The offline feature doesn't work with dynamic sites, as you know, and offline reading is moving to RSS syndication, which IE7 now does support.

What you could do instead is try searching for a website ripper, which will download a site, or a working subset, to your hard drive. Try the WinHTTrack website copier/offline browser, because it is free and open source (www.httrack.com).

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