Re: ox-html: stand-alone export option?

[Melanie Bacou <mel@mbacou.com>]

Hi Rasmus, see below.

On 2/18/2015 5:39 AM, Rasmus wrote:
> Hi Melanie,
>
> Melanie Bacou <mel@mbacou.com> writes:
>
>> I'm using ox-html to work on shared documents with my
>> collaborators. We're working off a Dropbox account and converting our
>> org files to HTML periodically.
>
> Cool.
>
>> Problem with all cloud storages is they don't work with relative links
>> inside HTML (links to external images, CSS, and JS resources).
>
> I use git and ssh to a wm which I guess is different from "cloud storages"
> so maybe I don't understand.  If you open the browser of my.html and you
> have an absolute path to https://orgmode.org/logo.png the browser would
> display it no?  Likewise for img/logo.png.  Probably I've
> misunderstood. . .

You're right with Github or remote storages there's no problem (links to 
images like `./fig/my_fig.png` or local CSS or JS `./css/my_css_.css` 
are interpreted as usual. The problem is only on cloud storage services 
like Dropbox where each resource gets a unique (unknown a priori) ID. 
These make it difficult to publish HTML documents.

>
>> We would really benefit from having a "stand-alone" HTML exporter
>> feature that automatically embeds all external references into one
>> single HTML file, so they can be shared with Dropbox, Google Drive,
>> OneDrive and the likes.
>
> Would you base64 encode images and inline code or do you have something
> else in mind with single HTML file?  It's not built into Org ATM.

Yes indeed was thinking of a "stand-alone" option that would include 
base64 encoded images and also verbatim include all local CSS and JS in 
the document head.

>
> In the short run maybe there's a tool that can do.  For instance, in
> Firefox it will save auxiliary material when you save a page.  I don't
> know if also save whatever scripts you rely on from whatever CDN far away...

Right, I looked at that too, but no true "stand-alone" option in FF or 
Chrome, both browsers include resources in a separate folder. Might 
spend a little more time searching for another utility.

>
>> Has this been discussed previously? Would there be any other work around?
>
> I think there was one guy who had patch that would automatically download
> external images.  Pretty neat.  I don't know if it was applied in the end.

I'd vote for this feature. In fact I believe it's now an option with 
RMarkdown/HTML documents.

>
> —Rasmus
>

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