snapshot handling: documentation?

mkl
How does Zotero handle web snapshots? I am trying to assess how future proof the current implementation is. Thanks!
  • adamsmith
    Zotero uses this:
    http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/user/pollak/webpagedump/
  • mkl
    Here a website - of a prominent newspaper - that Zotero does not seem to be able to handle via snapshot / webpagedumb (the saved entry renders back as a string of garbled ASCII, in Firefox at least):

    http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/die-herrschaft-der-finanzoligarchie-der-krieg-der-banken-gegen-das-volk-11549829.html

    I only found out by chance when going back to a set of saved snapshots, having previously assumed the snapshots had worked OK, so am taking away from this that it's good practice to double check proper snapshot rendering when saving a page.

    But it would be good to know whether this is a known systemic limitation, or a slip in WPD that it might be worth fixing?

    (Workaround: print to file then 'attach stored copy of file')
  • dstillman
    edited February 21, 2012
    A snapshot of that page works fine for me, both via the translator and via Create New Item from Current Page (which shouldn't make a difference as far as the attached snapshot is concerned, other than that some translators save the print version automatically).

    That said, WPD is old and unmaintained, and we need a replacement.

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