[whatwg] Web Documents off the Web (was Web Archives)

Michael A. Puls II shadow2531 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 17 01:07:52 PDT 2007


On 4/17/07, Thomas Broyer <t.broyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/4/17, Jon Barnett:
> >
> > The main gripe about [MHTML] was that binary data is base64 encoded,
> > which adds size to the file in the end.
>
> And which is a wrong assumption.
> Binary data can be sent with Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary.

True.

The problem is the current browser support for .mht and support for
generating/loading .mht files with binary attachments.

That could possibly be fixed though.

-- 
Michael



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