IE, Opera, and Safari support a "web archive" format, which does just this - encapsulates the resources in one file.Would be good if Chrome allowed saving / reading such format.
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Nwallins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One problem with saving webpages is all of the associated files (css, > images, etc.). Firefox handles this by creating a folder to to > contain these. The pain with this approach is the proliferation of > folders that are distinct from the actual page saved, leading to > administrative overhead in trying to manage the filesystem. > > Instead, why not save as gzipped archive, and add native support for > opening such files? > > Some useful defaults: > Archive name: Absolute URL of the page being saved > Master File (e.g. index.html): the last portion of the absolute URL, > perhaps with .html suffix (i.e. replaces .php, .htm, .cfm, .aspx, nil, > etc.) > > In this way, a webpage can be saved as a single file, and a double- > click can open the file and render it as delivered. Perhaps a special > suffix (i.e. other than .tar.gz or .tgz) should be used so Chrome can > be registered as the default handler. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
