Submitted by J-Mac on 2008/11/23 01:03
I noticed that some web page captures don’t render the page as viewed. This occurs on pages where the user is logged in. IQ apparently attempts to retrieve the URL from scratch rather than grab a snapshot of the page as it appears at the time of the capture attempt. IOW, you can't capture, say, your Gmail Inbox or a Gmail message body. IQ tries to get the page using the URL and, since it has no facility to log in for you, it brings back the login page. This limits to an extent what you can capture from the web with IQ.
 
Many web clipping applications do the same, but there are a few workarounds that can get you the page anyway:
  1. Capture the page with Scrapbook in Firefox and then clip that version of the page instead of the actual "live" page.
     
  2. One in particular allows you to input and save your login credentials, but that is only useful if it is going to be checking that page frequently; most probably won’t use IQ for that purpose.
     
  3. Click Edit>Select All, copy the entire page to the clipboard, and then execute a capture.
Only 1 and 3 are relevant here, but they don’t seem to work in IQ. I have tried capturing the web page in Scrapbook and then clip to IQ, but the IQ clip dialog shows nothing in the HTML pane and it just hangs after you attempt to clip it. Edit>Select All worked in one case but usually IQ appears to want to get the URL and can't get it logged in. I also tried, in the case of a specific Gmail message body that I wanted to clip, clicking "Print Message" in Gmail, which then shows a printer friendly page in a separate tab. But the preview has the same URL as the original message and IQ tries to get that URL with logging in. So that is unsuccessful also.
So my suggestion is to allow IQ to capture web pages from Scrapbook rather than the direct URL for sites that require login.
 
Thanks!

Jim

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Hi Jim,
  1. Yup, using the Scrapbook copy is an option, I'll consider. Remember that the FF extension is fresh off the press. More to come
  2. Agree, too much work for minimal gain
  3. Make sure you don't have "Copy content" checked. Paste the clipboard content into the HTML box.
    I can grab GMail message "content" this way. Presentation is not the greatest, it is true
    I also tried  using the GMail Print Message > CTRL-A, then
    1. in IE: > CTRL-C > In IQ CTRL-V and got a perfect capture,
    2. and in FF: click the IQ toolbar icon and also got a perfect capture
Improvement will come... after the Calendar

J-Mac

2008/11/23 01:46

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Thanks Pierre.
 
Yeah, #2 is how Web Site Watcher handles it, but that is used to continually check the page for changes, so it is useful there but not for one-time captures.
 
I'll have to try Gmail again; I don’t often try to clip from there but I did want a copy of that one message at the time. Copy/Paste didn't look good when I tried it. It pasted OK but the text and links were all over the place. The page was not structured at all how it had looked in my browser. Not sure why it was different from what you describe.
 
Jim