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Removing HTML Sections that Provoke an Internet Communication

You might realize that the display of some of the imported Web pages is slow and that your network becomes active during the display of those pages. Such a Web page contains specific instructions that enforce an Internet communication during its display, even if it is located in your hard disk. You may stop some of that, by disabling the scripting feature from your browser. Another way to avoid this problem is to remove all HTML sections that are known to provoke an Internet communication. Examples of such sections are the SCRIPT, the APPLET and, sometimes, the IFRAME tagged sections. There are also some tag parameters such SRC and BACKGROUND that may still contain an http:// prefix. Most of the time, these sections add nothing to the content of the document. Indeed, they just add unwanted features, such as: Web bugs, spying scripts, and dynamically updated advertising. The simplest way to speedup the display of such Web pages is simply to remove these HTML sections; this is exactly what WebGrabber can easily do.

The removal of HTML sections is executed within an Optimize operation when:

If you have already executed an Optimize operation, you may repeat it with the above settings. As you will see, the display of such-processed imported Web pages will be much faster.

Note: You may want to backup these imported Web pages, just in case that removing some HTML sections might destroy important Web page contents or features. This is done by WebGrabber automatically, if the Create Backup Pages checkbox that is located in the Optimization panel of the Configuration dialog is checked; this is the default state. If something goes wrong, just delete the updated optimized pages (the ".htm" ending files) and rename their backup versions by removing their ".bak" extension.

 


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