[thelist] mht archives

[Denis, David]

This is based on an RFC:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2557.html

which was originally aimed at email clients.  There is an outstanding RFE
for Mozilla to implement this in the browser as well, the author is trying
to maintain compatibility:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40873


Dave

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joshua Olson" <joshua at alphashop.net>
> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 10:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [thelist] mht archives
> 
> 
> > I just tried to save a page to this format, and by and 
> large it looks like
> > it's just saving the page as an HTML email, with the images 
> encoded in the
> > multipart document.
> >
> > So, this would imply that other browsers would not be able 
> to open the
> > document, whereas mail readers may be able to.  To test it 
> out, I changed
> > the extension to .eml, and Outlook read it just fine.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > -joshua
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Villano, Paul" <VillanoP at usachcs.army.mil>
> > Subject: [thelist] mht archives
> >
> >
> > : One of the saving options for web pages in my browser (IE 
> 5.5) is as
> .mht
> > : files ("web archives" with all links in a single file).  
> Are these as
> > : generic as .htm files or just an MS thing?  Will all/most 
> browsers be
> able
> > : to open these files or will they crash? Am I better off 
> just saving the
> > : pages as .htm and risk the broken links?
> > :
> > : Thanks in advance for any advice.
> > :
> > : PAUL
> >
> 
> 
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