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.
> >
>

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