Is there a true "offline" browser for iPad?
By "offline" I mean that it should be able to load local files. I would like to be able to copy a whole directory tree of HTML pages (with CSS and Javascript) to the iPad (the app would need to have support for copying to the app's sandbox by dragging to iTunes, or better still over WiFi from a file server) and then browse that. I'd be happy if it would just load index.html from the root of the directory tree.
In other words, just what would happen if you were to point Safari or Firefox on your Mac or PC to a local .html file.
I'm being a bit cagey here because I have a specific use in mind, I'm a developer, and I might just write the app if it hasn't been done. If it doesn't exist, I would probably customize it for this specific use. I have the need myself, though, so if something already exists that will come close to what I want, I'll probably just use that, and perhaps suggest a variation for my use case to the developer. Perhaps they'd agree that the use case deserves it's own app, and produce a modified version and save me the trouble.
Atomic Browser has an "offline" mode, but it doesn't do quite what I want. It will allow you to save pages for offline reading. But I want to access a whole "site". I do NOT need to load the site off of the Internet and adjust the URLs, though. It would be pre-packaged as local files, with links that only point within the directory tree.
Actually, I can see a lot of uses for this besides my own use case - for example, it could be used to display, say, a store catalog for in-store use.
Yes, I know there are "app generators" that will "turn your web site or RSS feed into an app", but that's not what I want, either. I want to be able to update the files periodically, and have multiple self-contained directory trees that I can choose from.
By "offline" I mean that it should be able to load local files. I would like to be able to copy a whole directory tree of HTML pages (with CSS and Javascript) to the iPad (the app would need to have support for copying to the app's sandbox by dragging to iTunes, or better still over WiFi from a file server) and then browse that. I'd be happy if it would just load index.html from the root of the directory tree.
In other words, just what would happen if you were to point Safari or Firefox on your Mac or PC to a local .html file.
I'm being a bit cagey here because I have a specific use in mind, I'm a developer, and I might just write the app if it hasn't been done. If it doesn't exist, I would probably customize it for this specific use. I have the need myself, though, so if something already exists that will come close to what I want, I'll probably just use that, and perhaps suggest a variation for my use case to the developer. Perhaps they'd agree that the use case deserves it's own app, and produce a modified version and save me the trouble.
Atomic Browser has an "offline" mode, but it doesn't do quite what I want. It will allow you to save pages for offline reading. But I want to access a whole "site". I do NOT need to load the site off of the Internet and adjust the URLs, though. It would be pre-packaged as local files, with links that only point within the directory tree.
Actually, I can see a lot of uses for this besides my own use case - for example, it could be used to display, say, a store catalog for in-store use.
Yes, I know there are "app generators" that will "turn your web site or RSS feed into an app", but that's not what I want, either. I want to be able to update the files periodically, and have multiple self-contained directory trees that I can choose from.