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Save entire Web page to IPFS

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#91 opened on Mar 2, 2016

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Description

Degraded user experience example when the user is just shown raw HTML content upon trying to "Import to IPFS" a web page.

(This is a part of meta-issue: Mirroring Web to IPFS tracked at https://github.com/ipfs/in-web-browsers/issues/94)

in addition to https://github.com/lidel/ipfs-firefox-addon/issues/59

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Research direction
Investigate the current 'Import to IPFS' workflow in the browser extension, focusing on how web pages are fetched and stored. Identify gaps where full page content (HTML, CSS, images, etc.) is not preserved, and propose a solution to capture and store all linked resources.
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend
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Feature
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3
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1-2 days
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Active
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Needs investigation
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50