On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Eduard Pascual <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Doug Schepers <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't think it's defined anywhere, but a browser could choose to save > > bundled resources as a self-contained Widget ("File > Save as Widget..."), > > which would be a great authoring solution for Widgets. > > Isn't that the same thing, in essence, as MS did with IE? IIRC, IE had > an choice, on its save dialog, to "Save full page", which packed the > html page + all the CSS, JS, image, and other dependencies within a > ".mht" (called meta-HTML) file (which, of course, only IE would be > able to open afterwards).
MHTML stands for MIME-encapsulated HTML and is an IETF RFC: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2557.txt > The fact is that this feature has been removed from the more recent > versions of IE (not sure if it was from IE6 or 7). It would be > interesting to know why MS decided why such a feature should be > removed. Selecting Page -> Save as... on IE8 brings the save file dialog with the type defaulting to "Web Archive, single file (*.mht)" > At first glance, the only potential issue I see (both with IE's old > MHT format and with any possible zhtml) is XSS: when a downloaded file > is loaded from the local filesystem into the browser, which is its > domain? The one from its Content-Location MIME header. -- Thomas Broyer /tɔ.ma.bʁwa.je/
