184868 - there is no save as formatting of webpages in text format for offline viewing

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Jim Crittenden]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

When I save a webpage in text format for offline viewing, the formatting is
lost, making it very difficult to read.  NS4.x and earlier did a super job of
formatting text after a 'save as'.  Also, the title was the default filename in
the save as dialog box.  Now it it the document's filename.  This is a Priority
One for me with respect to using a browser.  Thanks. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Open a webpage with text on it
2.  Do a File. Save As (page or frame)
3.  Save as a text file

Actual Results:  
Formatting is lost.

Expected Results:  
A nicely formatted text document, as in Netscape 4.x and earlier.

Comment 1

[Torben]

If you want tokeepthe formating of the text, chose save as web page complete. A
plain text file cannot contain formating. If you want something else please
clarify, or I think this bug is invalid.

Comment 2

[Jim Crittenden]

The problem is not that the text needs formatting, really, but in the way the 
browser intelligently renders the text.  In offline browsing, a person uses the 
browser to read text files.  This saves time, energy and allows a person freedom 
when to view documents.  Mozilla is not rendering these text documents is an 
easily readable way, as NS 4.x and earlier did.

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

dup of bug 18012?

Comment 4

[Jim Crittenden]

Bug 18012 is related to this one in the sense, again, that NS4.x and earlier was
able to at least columnize tables in a most rudimentary way.  The difference is
that you can always save as 'source' to maintain table integrity.  The present
bug has to do with how text is rendered.  Using the 'printer-friendly' option
available on many websites, then saving as 'text' used to give a readable page.

Could the matter be one of enabling an automatic 'hard-wrapping' the raw text?

Thanks.

Comment 5

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Bugs are targeted at mac classic, which is dead. Marking WONTFIX. Please reopen,
if you can reproduce the bug on Mac OS X with 1.5beta or later.