Hello,<br><br>Do any of the existing web archive formats out there store the "ETag" or "Last-Modified" of the resources it is archiving?<br><br><br>See ya<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/11/07,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Tyler Keating</b> <<a href="mailto:tylerkeating@mac.com">tylerkeating@mac.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>I apologize if I've missed this in the specification or mailing<br>archives, but I have a suggestion related to standardizing web<br>"archives" in HTML5. Currently, I know that Firefox uses Mozilla<br>
Archive Format (.maf), Internet Explorer and Opera use MIME HTML<br>(.mht) and Safari uses its own format (.webarchive) for saving a web<br>page and all of its resources into a single file. So clearly a<br>standard would be beneficial in ensuring "archive" compatibility
<br>between browsers and I think it's suitable for that standard to<br>reside in HTML5.<br><br>I don't believe this would be very difficult to standardize and the<br>solution may be nothing more than a collection of random files
<br>wrapped into a ZIP compressed archive with a unique extension similar<br>to a JAR or ODF file. The unique extension would be recognized by<br>browsers, email clients and editors, which could then extract and<br>display the root file directly (ex.
index.html). The root file would<br>obviously contain relative URIs to any other HTML, JavaScript, CSS,<br>images and other files in the archive so the internal structure may<br>not be important and the browser would not need any new rules to
<br>interpret individual files once it has uncompressed the archive into<br>memory. This would facilitate passing HTML based documents around<br>that could be viewed with any browser, yet appear as a small single<br>file.
<br><br>-Tyler<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br> Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.<br><br> charles @ <a href="http://reptile.ca">reptile.ca</a><br> supercanadian @ <a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com
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