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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 07/20/05 16:39
dorayme wrote:
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>
> But I sense that you are wanting to have a file that is the web page
> itself somehow, in it's full expression. When you double click this one
> file with no pic files or any others needed, it opens in a browser in
> its full glory. Fine.
>
> This is pretty much what happens when you save a web page in *some*
> browsers. The browsers that have this capability ask you whether you
> want to save the HTML itself or as a "web archive". Different browsers
> do it different. For example, my IE 5 for a Mac asks this and has its
> secret formula for doing it. You get a file that embeds all, there are
> no associated files, no distinguishable pic files, html text files, css
> files. It is all in a top secret proprietary coca cola formulae. It is
> quite neat. The advantages are not great though, more a curiosity (there
> are some pros and some cons).
>
> So, you could open your original html in a browser like IE 5 for the
> Mac, it will find the picture and display it. You could then save as a
> web archive. You then could throw out your pic or move the web archive
> to a CD and play it on another computer and your pic and all will
> appear. You can recover the original files by looking and saving the
> source code and saving the pics etc (the reverse). One little curiosity
> is that you cannot easily recover any linked css file! Even though it
> has been plainly taken into account. IE Mac developers have been
> thinking hard and have done something quite clever and not a little
> untransparent!
>
> Some browsers merely save all the files when you want to save the
> whole web page (or site, I will leave this complication out). For
> example, my WaMCom Mozilla open source 1.3 calls it saving as a "Web
> page, complete". Now what happens here is different to IE, here the
> program simply saves the html and puts pics and linked css files in a
> folder (just one level under the html) - basically and approximately
> recovering the sort of arrangement that the web designer had on his
> computer. Here there would be no advantage for you given that you perhaps
> see an advantage in the "all embedded" secret technology of MS in IE.
>
> Personally I like the way Mozilla does it because it is more transparent
> and saves you work when you want to get all the files (to save and learn
> from or change them, perhaps offline).
>
> It is maybe rather different in the PC world. It is an interesting
> matter though.
>
>
If you are looking for the single file option, MSIE saves in a
single-file archive format MHT. It is a MS format so compatibility is an
issue. Mozilla has it own single-file archive format MAF. Installing the
extension does also allow reading of the MHT format, but this may not be
an answer for all browsers.
Maybe an HTML document is not what you want, but something more like an
Adobe Acrobat PDF, or since this is to be on disk abandon the web page
concept entirely and do a PowerPoint presentation!
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Take care,
Jonathan
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