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

[Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>]

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. . .

> 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.

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...

> 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.

—Rasmus

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