Re: [CGUYS] MHTML: what's up with that?

2008-04-24 Thread Chris Dunford
I still don't see your point, sorry. PDFs and MHTs serve different purposes. If IE added a "Save as PDF" option, it would be in addition to "Save as MHT", it wouldn't replace it. * ** List info, subscription management, li

Re: [CGUYS] MHTML: what's up with that?

2008-04-24 Thread Matthew Taylor
It is not perfect, but Acrobat will take a web page, including links however deep you specify, and convert to a readable PDF that anyone with a reader can read. Yes, the formating will be fixed - a good thing, since you will know how the person you send it too will see it. With MHT, what

Re: [CGUYS] MHTML: what's up with that?

2008-04-24 Thread Chris Dunford
>PDF. >> There are no standards that I'm aware of for a single file >> containing a >> fully self-contained web page. No. PDF is not the same as MHT. For one thing, PDF dictates what a document MUST look like; MHT does not. MHT is just a web page with everything that must be displayed embedded i

Re: [CGUYS] MHTML: what's up with that?

2008-04-24 Thread Matthew Taylor
PDF. On Apr 24, 2008, at 10:16 AM, Chris Dunford wrote: There are no standards that I'm aware of for a single file containing a fully self-contained web page. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archi

Re: [CGUYS] MHTML: what's up with that?

2008-04-24 Thread Chris Dunford
There are no standards that I'm aware of for a single file containing a fully self-contained web page. MS came up with such a file but were under no obligation to conform to anyone else's implementation (if any such existed--I don't know). ***

Re: [CGUYS] MHTML: what's up with that?

2008-04-24 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
Sounds like another case of Ms making up their own standard again ignoring the ones everyone else came up with. On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >and Linux only) but Thunderbird will. Good old ms!> > > > >What did MS do wrong here, exactly? > > Nothi

Re: [CGUYS] MHTML: what's up with that?

2008-04-23 Thread Tom Piwowar
>and Linux only) but Thunderbird will. Good old ms!> > >What did MS do wrong here, exactly? Nothing, except making it more proprietary than necessary. FireFox has a similar, but more open function. * ** List info, subscrip

Re: [CGUYS] MHTML: what's up with that?

2008-04-22 Thread Chris Dunford
What did MS do wrong here, exactly? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *

Re: [CGUYS] MHTML: what's up with that?

2008-04-22 Thread Jordan
I am no authority on these things but I think it's safe to rely on wikipedia for information about this sort of thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHTML Apparently Firefox won't like it without a specific extension(windows and Linux only) but Thunderbird will. Good old ms! Constance Warner wr

Re: [CGUYS] MHTML: what's up with that?

2008-04-22 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
MHTML is a packaged format. It takes all components and makes them one page. I use it all the time otherwise you get a web page and a directory to save all the components. All you need to do to open it with another web browser is right click and do like you would with any other extension you

[CGUYS] MHTML: what's up with that?

2008-04-22 Thread Constance Warner
My boss just sent me some documents downloaded from the Web via Internet Explorer, to be posted on an online library site for association members to see and download. The documents are in MHTML format-whatever that is. When you click on them, they open in Internet Explorer. As a rule, when