64705 - [RFE] Should be a way to save text of a page from Navigator

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 42441

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

Right now, at least on mac, there is no way to save the text of a page (not the
html, just the text). SaveAs saves the HTML. Since patching NavServices isn't
very simple (l10n issues, etc), how about another menu item "Save As Text" and
rename saveAs to "Save As Source".

How cluttered could that be? Not being able to save the text of a page sucks,
and i'd bet that 99% of users want the text, not the source (what's html?). How
about making "save as" save the text, and if they want source, they can copy it
out of the "view source" window? That'll keep things uncluttered, yet still
allow the geeks that want the source access.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Bug 42441 suggests that this be an option in the Save As... dialog.  Mozilla 
Composer has this option already, although it doesn't work right now 
(bug 51798).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 42441 ***

Comment 2

[timeless]

Reopening, the problem with the dialogs is that nav services patching is 
*hard*.

Comment 3

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

It's not hard at all, it just needs someone to spend the time to write the code.

Comment 4

[timeless]

helpwanted

Comment 5

[Paul Chen]

And SOO many other things wrong with mozilla. Marking nsbeta1- and future

Comment 6

[Michael Baffoni]

Instead of having a separate item under "file" for "Save as Text", why not
follow the lead of most other applications and have an arrow pointing out from
"Save As", with the sub options of "HTML" or "Text" or <etc.>.  For those that
use Save As Text a lot, maybe they can add a keyboard shortcut to it (maybe
something like control-shift-T).

Comment 7

[Damian Christey]

"Reopening, the problem with the dialogs is that nav services patching is 
*hard*."

I'm not sure what you mean by "nav services patching", but this IS a duplicate 
of bug 42441, because that bug describes the correct and generally agreed upon 
way to implement the save as text UI.  If there is some reason we need to have 
this in the file menu itself, then we can reopen this after the other one is 
fixed.  Just because it's *hard*, is no excuse not to do it *right*. ;)


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 42441 ***

Comment 8

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass verification of duplicate bugs: to find all bugspam pertaining to this, set
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if you think this particular bug is *not* a duplicate, please provide a
compelling reason, as well as check a recent *trunk* build (on the appropriate
platform[s]), before reopening.