Graham Perrin's List: WebArchive

• a platform-independent file format for rich web content
• a class within a software framework
• WebArchive: the format
• contains the main resource, as well as the subresources and subframes of the main resource
• a portion of a webpage
• some other kind of data
• The main resource can be an entire webpage
• Supporting applications, classes, commands and operating systems
• Mac OS X

  • An application that is not normally thought of as a producer of WebArchive files can easily send or receive WebArchive data.

  • The operating system provides System Services support for interapplication communication of WebArchive data.
  Add Sticky Note
• in Mac OS X
• Safari
• Safari version 4 and later for Windows

  • Safari (for Windows and in Mac OS X) is probably the best known application for production of files in WebArchive format.
  Add Sticky Note
• Conversions
• XML to binary
• Binary to XML
• WebArchive to files
• WebArchive to PDF
• WebArchive to KDE WAR
• WebArchive: the class
• within the open source WebKit project
• place a portion of a webpage on the pasteboard
• to archive webpages
• represent rich web content in any application

21 more annotations...

• I edited this page extensively in June/July 2009. - Graham Perrin on 2009-07-25

• A WebArchive object represents a webpage
• subresources and sub

  frames of the main resource
• A WebArchive object contains the

  main resource,
• The main resource can be an entire webpage, a portion of a webpage, or some other kind of data such as an image.
• represent rich web content in any application

3 more annotations...

• Clipboard Pro
• short-term data storage
• transfer
• copy and paste

2 more annotations...

•  KBWebArchiver 

  • Credit to Keith Blount for KBWebArchiver is given at
    http://www.entropytheblog.com/blog/2008/11/webarchiver-create-safari-webarchives-from-the-command-line/
  Add Sticky Note
• very easy
• download any given URL to a webarchive
• utility class

2 more annotations...