On 18-Sep-04, at 2:54 PM, Stuart Morgan wrote:
Like I said before, I would guess that the purpose is to capture as much of the content of the page as possible while remaining in a plain text form (the same reason people use *emphasis*, smilies, and the like in emails and posts). If you want a real answer, this bug:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16800
seems to discuss its creation, and have links to further discussion, so you can see why the people who added it did so.
OK, assuming this is by design and its intended to add emphasis and meaning to text, then why give it an extension of .html. OS X assumes this is a browser intended to be opened by a web browser and does so. It isn't readable when opened in a browser (or TextEdit), but in BBEdit and it looks almost acceptable, if you understand how these emphasis tags add meaning.
The way it's saved (with the .html extension AND as a file identified with its creator) leaves the end user confused.
Using the same URL I used in my attachment to bug 259903, <http://www.saila.com/usage/layouts/>, Mozilla 1.7 saves the "text" file the same way as Camino, but names it "it CSS Layouts - saila.com" where Camino calls it "CSS Layouts - saila.com.html". Even in Mozilla, Panther doesn't know what application to open the file with.
Is it a usability issue instead?
DF
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