[OT] Re: [ILUG] web file format

[Smith, Graham - Computing Technician]

What i normally do is use "print to file" from Netscape,
then use ps2pdf on the resultant postscript. Makes a nice
little archive of a page all in one neat self contained file
which you can open in xpdf or acroread or whatever takes 
your fancy for viewing pdf documents.

The full Acrobat application (i dont mean just the reader app)
can create a pdf of a webpage and recurse to a specified
depth of a site and create a more complex pdf of many
pages. I think thats only available for windows though so thats
not much use. But a feature like that in Mozilla would be pretty
cool. 

G.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Murtagh [mailto:murtaghn at tcd.ie]
Sent: 15 May 2002 19:17
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: [OT] Re: [ILUG] web file format


On Wednesday 15 May 2002 17:47, Padraig Brady wrote:
> Why is there no common format
> recognised by browsers for
> saving/opening "web documents",
> I.E. tar.gz of a folder containing
> html file(s) and pictures etc.

Funnily enough this idea had occurred to me too...
The logical extension of this is to serve up a webpage
as a tar.gz, including images and css and javascript,
so that the browser only has to request one file.
Most browsers and web servers already use gzip compression
so that wouldn't be hard to do. The downside is that
cached images and so on would be downloaded again, but
it should be possible to avoid this somehow, by having the
server omit them from the archive.

Maybe better discussed on webdev?

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