- Webarchive
The webarchive file format is available on Apple's Mac platform for saving and reviewing complete web pages using the Safari browser. [http://www.macworld.com/article/50198/2006/04/webarchivefolderizer.html De-archive Web Archives] ] Support for webarchive documents only exists on Macs; Safari 3 on Windows does not support the format.
Other web browsers use the
MHTML format or do the equivalent by saving a directory of inline resources (usually images) alongside the html file,Fact|date=April 2008 sometimes compressed, like the .war format used byKonqueror (tar+gzip or tar+bzip2).The webarchive format appears to be a concatenation of source files with filenames and an unknown binary glue in-between. It is not meant to be a regular standard to pass documents around, and many people prefer to use Safari's Print to PDF feature instead to store webpages. Indeed, the .webarchive format appears to more be a convenience for Mac developers. The API uses webarchives to simplify using cutting-and-pasting with whole or partial web pages.Fact|date=April 2008
Workarounds to allow the file to be viewed in other browsers such as
Windows Internet Explorer are possible, though specific webpage contents may hinder this process:
* Open the webarchive file usingTextEdit .
* Open the webarchive file usingWord for Mac 2004 and save it as a web page from Word's file menu.
* Use the free tools WebArchive Folderizer or WebArchive Extractor. [ [http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/26528/webarchive-extractor WebArchive Extractor] ]References
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
