Hi Merv, Typically a web page which you view may contain stuff which isn't actually part of the HTML code, but which is called up by instructions in the code - the most obvious example being an image - where the html code will include the source address of the image file.
If you save as a web archive then typically you will get a folder containing not only the html page source, but also all the other items required to reconstruct the entire page (eg images etc). If you just save as html then the actual html file will be exactly the same as the html file in the web archive - as you have observed - but if you were to open the pages in a web browser the web archive (or the html file in the web archive folder, if nothing has been removed from the folder) should display exactly as before but the straight html file will show the bones of the page but may well be missing some items or display differently if separate style sheet fies were used. Whether images are displayed or not will depend on how they are called up: If the full image address is used, eg: http://site.com.au/pic.jpg Then the browser will go back to the original site and download the image (assuming the site doesn't have measures to prevent this - but that's a different topic) which will display correctly. However, typically a site will have its images in an images folder and will use a relative address to call up the image, eg: images/pic.jpg Which means the browser will look for a folder called "images" in the same directory as the html file and then look in that folder for the image file. If you have just saved as html, it won't find the folder (unless co-incidentally you have a folder called images in the same directory - and if so, short of a coincidence meltdown, it won't find the image file in the folder). If, on the other hand, you saved as web archive, an image folder will have been created and a copy of the image placed in it and so all will display as it should. Images are not the only things that are affected- but it makes for an easy example. HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 1/3/09 5:30 PM, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond at m...@iinet.net.au wrote: > I have Safari 3.1.2 and that doesn't seem to allow a save in html > either, but isn't the Web Archive in html. > Firefox gives a straight html option. When I open these Save as > files in my page spinner they both show the same html coding. I must > be missing an important difference. > Merv > > >> How do I save a standard html page from Safari? (I'm using Safari 4 >> beta on latest Leopard OS). The options seem only to be webarchive >> and text. Or do I need to use a different browser like Firefox to >> achieve this? >> >> Cheers, Steven >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
