Zip up groups of webpages for viewing in the browser

Posted by Arlen Beiler on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Arlen Beiler
Published on 2010-05-15T22:46:45Z Indexed on 2010/05/15 22:50 UTC
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I think there should be a standard for saving and viewing bunches of webpages as a website.

For instance, say I have a whole bunch of pages, such as I get from the WordPress plugin "Really Static" (which saves the entire site), and I have all the links start with a slash (to make linking to supporting files easier). Now, I can't really use those links if I am reading it from the file system. If there would be a standard where we could zip up files, give them a unique extension (like "hzip" for html zip), and open the file with any browser, which would display it as though the root of that file were the root of the pages. "file://examplefile.hzip/" The links would then all work. This would really help sharing and copying groups of webpages.

Is this a good idea? A bad one? What do you think?

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