stupid html question

[Net Llama!]

On 09/05/2004 05:09 AM, James McDonald wrote:
> Tony Alfrey wrote:
> 
>> Hi;
>>
>> I have composed an html page with various gif and jpg files linked in 
>> the html source.  But I would like to send the whole composed page to 
>> a friend as one "file" so that when it is opened, it is 
>> "self-contained", as opposed to the html page and the gif and jpg 
>> files located in the same directory as the html source.  Is it 
>> possible to do such a thing?
>> Thanks!
>>
>>  
>>
> This is where I think Mozilla needs to create a file of similar 
> structure to the M$ mht file which parcels the entire page in a single 
> base64(guessing here) encoded format.
> 
> Whenever I download a tech tip or howto I would prefer that it was a 
> monolithic file and not a index page a directory and a half dozen 
> gifs/jpg's.
> 
> I wonder if the Mozilla creators have seen this need and are making an 
> appropriate solution.

jebus, i hope not.  mht archives are yet another example of M$ taking a 
semi-decent concept and doing it wrong in every way possible.  Those 
things are bloated, proprietary nightmares.


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