[chandler-users] New user, features inquiry...

[Philippe Bossut]

Hi Forrest,

Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> Does Chandler allow the full capturing and storing of web pages?  (and 
> subsequent indexing thereof)
>
> I have need for this, and have been poking around the *myriad* of 
> products (mostly commercial) that do this, including MyBase.   With my 
> want for some product that supports both Linux and Windows. 

No, Chandler does not provide such a feature though it could be extended 
to implement it. One can easily imagine a parcel (Chandler's linguo for 
plug-ins) that would create and handle such items.

The issues though would be in storing enough data for the archived page 
to render (all the linked files, including scripts...) and have a robust 
enough HTML renderer to display them. Right now, the wxWidgets we use in 
Chandler to render HTML is a little under powered for this purpose. 
There's some work underway though in the wx community to make use of 
WebKit from wx. That would certainly make the work of a Chandler parcel 
much easier. One could of course use Chandler to handle the item 
(storage and links within the Chandler "soup") and an external browser 
to render the page... hmm...

Anyway, it's a good idea and I went ahead and added it to the list of 
"projects" for this year's interns 
(http://wiki.osafoundation.org/Journal/TedLeung20060127).

Thanks for the suggestion.

Cheers,
- Philippe