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.
Regards,
Maciej
