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by theycallmeg 4165 days ago
Started as a weekend project but took me almost two weeks. Please share any feedback.
5 comments

Thank you, it's pretty sad that we've had to wait years for something that was available in nineties versions of Internet Explorer.
We didn't, I've been using Offline Browser[1] for quite a while now. This does seem more polished, though.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.nikodroid.o...

The feature of being able to share a URL from my browser to Offline is pretty sweet.

I was irate that I had to type out URLs, until I thought to try that :)

Bug report: hitting the Back button takes me out of the browser, while the back arrow goes backwards in web history. I expected them to be the other way around (behaving more like a normal browser).

It's not a bug, it's a feature :) I just hate that I can't exit the browser with a back button, but I may be the only one.
I don't know if it's reasonable to ask this, but it would be cool to have an option to swap them around?

I guess I'll always be assuming it behaves like Firefox, so I'm tripping myself up a lot.

Either way, very cool app.

It should be easy to add that option, I hope it will be in the next version.
Just 2 weeks! I am very impressed. Great work.

First URL I typed in was news.ycombinator.com, which wasn't valid until I added the http://. I don't think most users would know to do that. Could you default to https / http when it isn't specified?

Makes sense, I'll probably include a preview of the website as well. Thanks for the feedback.
Thanks for this. I take the subway every day of the week, and unfortunately we don't have internet service in the subway tunnels. I've been hoping for an app like this for a long time. Will definitely download and try it!
Nice, thanks!