Can't open Safari web archive.
Rob Behr, posted Jan 22nd 2010 at 4:49AM
Hi Folks,
I get an error telling me that the format is not supported. Is that true?
Thanks,
Rob
Hello Rob,
Safari web archive is not an archive file in a traditional sense. It’s a special format file Apple invented to preserve whole web page as it looks like in a web browser (with all linked images, multimedia files, scripts etc.). It is actually an XML file, defining web page elements and their contents as XML nodes, and than binary formated in a special way so that it takes less disk space and is faster to load. The web archive format is private (known exactly only by Apple), but web archives can be created and manipulated using WebKit API. They can also be (kind of) converted into text using textutil command line tool provided with Mac OS X.
So, since these files are not regular archives, Springy doesn’t support them and can’t open them. However, they can be archived without any problem.