- From: Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@atlas.otago.ac.nz>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:46:24 +1300 (NZDT)
- To: html-tidy@w3.org, sbowring@mpc-data.co.uk
>But basically as I understand it, the Web Archive format was introduced >with Internet Explorer 4.0.x, and is basically a standard Java ".jar" file, >with the extension changed to ".war". Apparently there were some bugs with >early IE 4.0 versions and Web Archives, and based on the comments below, it >is possible that Microsoft "embraced and extended" the jar format. This was on a Macintosh. The "Web Archive" file in question didn't have _any_ extension, neither ".war", ".jar", ".zip", or any extension at all. Its icon appeared at first and second glance to be the same as the icon used for simple Web pages. The Macintoshes in question didn't have MPW installed, so writing a script to unpack the thing and feed the parts through the (non-command-line!) MacTidy application would have been _rather_ tricky.
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