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mr_satan@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Ok, so your average site doesn’t download content directly. The initial load is just the framework required to fetch and render the content dynamically.
Short of just crawling the whole site, there is no real way to know what, when or why a thing is loaded into memory.
You can’t even be sure that some pages will stay the same after every single refresh.

Comparing it to saving the state of OS isn’t fair because the state is in one place. On the machine running the code. The difference here is that the state of the website is not in control of the browser and there’s no standard way to access it in a way that would allow what you’re describing.

Now, again, saving rendered HTML is trivial, but saving the whole state of a dynamic website required a full on web crawler and then not only loading saved pages and scripts, but also emulating the servers to fetch the data rendered.

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