.webarchive format?

[Lee Revell]

On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 12:00 -0700, Scott wrote:
> On 05/07/2006 10:41 AM, * Lee Revell spake thusly:
> > On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 12:35 -0500, Rocco Stanzione wrote:
> >> On Sunday 07 May 2006 12:19 pm, Lee Revell wrote:
> >>> I just got a mail from a Mac user with an attachment that's supposed to
> >>> be a web page, but it's in this a bizarre ".webarchive" binary format
> >>> that I've never seen and Firefox can't open.  Anyone know WTF it is?
> >>>
> >>> What kind of idiot would create a proprietary format to solve such a
> >>> non-problem?
> >> As I recall, the idiot in question is Microsoft.  The webarchive format is an 
> >> html file with binary elements, like images, encoded right into it rather 
> >> than saved separately.
> >>
> > 
> > It seems to be worse than that.  Running strings on it does not reveal
> > any HTML tags, only URL targets are visible.  Apparently the HTML part
> > is compressed.
> 
> 
> That's the point of webarchives.  They combine the elements of a web
> page into a single file.   There is one for Firefox and Konqueror as well.
> 
> In this case (as was my guess) .webarchive is in fact not a Microsoft
> format, but an Safari (Apple Mac OS X web browser) format.
> 
> 
> http://www.fileinfo.net/extension/webarchive

And no one ever considered that people using different browsers might
want to exchange these files?  :-P

Lee