Tyler Keating wrote:
On 16-Apr-07, at 3:03 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
On Apr 16, 2007, at 1:39 PM, Tyler Keating wrote:
Hi,
I'm bringing this up again with a different tact, because the more
that I think about it, the more I believe it has the ability to
significantly change the perception and application of HTML and I
would really like to keep the discussion alive. In the previous
thread, I proposed a standard for archiving web sites into a single
ZIP archive with a unique file extension and although it didn't get
any outright negative feedback, it didn't drum up too much excitement
either. If you can bear with me, I'd like to describe the idea again
in a slightly different light.
A cross-browser web archive format sounds like a useful thing.
However, I don't think it should be part of or even tied to the HTML
spec. In principle, such an archive could contain any browser-viewable
content as the root document. This could be HTML, XHTML, SVG, generic
XML, plain text, a raster image, or any number of other things. So
such an archive format is logically a separate layer and should be
specced as such.
Okay. I understand it now... Thank you, you are right. Before I get
out of here, whom do I bring this to instead? I'm guessing it needs to
be the W3C Web Application Formats WG, but I'd like validation before I
start bugging them (if that's even possible).
I think this would be a good list, it just wouldn't be part of the
webapps (html5) spec, but it would be a new whatwg spec.
I think a lot of work has been done in this area though, so you should
research what's out there. We talked a bit about this for firefox 3, but
I'm not sure what the latest word is with regards to if it's still in
the plan or not.
Apples and operas widget formats would be a place to start looking. I
think IE had some format as well. I know there are other things out
there as well, but I can't remember them off the top of my head.
In any event, like Maciej, I think it would be great to have a cross
browser format for this stuff.
/ Jonas
