RE: Off Topic: Seeking equivalent Mozilla feature

[J R FOX jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

--- Brian Henderson  wrote:

> I think IE's MHT saved file flavor is one of the
> main reason's I keep coming
> back to Microsquish's browser. I use it all the
> time.
>
> I'm pretty sure it's some sort of PDF

After some further experimentation, I have to revise
what I said earlier. It is true that Mozilla (and
probably also Opera) can open and display an .mht
file. But while I had supposed that the graphics
elements etc. were all encapsulated within the file,
this appears not to be the case. Instead, there are a
bunch of links to said elements, at the places where
they would go. Open the file with Mozilla or FireFox,
and you will see tokens serving as placemarkers for
where these things go. Open the file with Internet
Exploder, and you will see everything reassembled into
the final product. Therefore, these "web archive"
files are not really all that archival (in the way
that .PDF is), and are only good until such time as
the links they contain go 404 on us, as they
eventually will. If there is some chart, table, or
drawing in the document that is of value, best to
print the whole thing out NOW, rather than to try this
a couple years later. Unless you have some way of
converting the web document to PDF.


Jordan