I have a number of archived Safari web pages that I need to send to someone to view. Most likely they will not have an Apple computer nor even use the Safari browser and for this reason I will have to try and archive the same web pages in Internet Explorer, but my question is if they do have Safari for Windows installed will they be able to view my web pages archived with Apple Safari?

Also is there some way to view archived Safari web pages without having Safari installed or is there some way to get Internet Explorer to open them? I tried opening my Safari web pages with Internet Explorer, but the Internet Explorer option is blanked out when I go to 'Open With' and try to change Safari (default) to Internet Explorer.

The PC version of Safari cannot open these archive files.

I just tested it with the latest version of Safari on both platforms.

This seems a bit silly to me. Shouldn't there be some kind of universal web page file format by now so that anyone can open and properly view any saved web site no matter what browser it was saved in or what browser is being used to view the saved web site?

It's called HTML.

Originally Posted by Bahamut

It's called HTML.

If all web sites use HTML then why can't Microsoft Internet Explorer open Apple Safari archived web site files or why can't Windows Safari open Apple Safari archived web site files or why can't Apple Safari open Firefox archived web site files, etc?

Originally Posted by DarkAvenger

I have a number of archived Safari web pages that I need to send to someone to view. Most likely they will not have an Apple computer nor even use the Safari browser and for this reason I will have to try and archive the same web pages in Internet Explorer, but my question is if they do have Safari for Windows installed will they be able to view my web pages archived with Apple Safari?

Also is there some way to view archived Safari web pages without having Safari installed or is there some way to get Internet Explorer to open them? I tried opening my Safari web pages with Internet Explorer, but the Internet Explorer option is blanked out when I go to 'Open With' and try to change Safari (default) to Internet Explorer.

Why try to change the default application as that only applies to the local computer anyway? When you tried "Open with" you may have failed to notice it also said "Recommended applications" and gives you the option of "All applications" at which point you could have selected "Open with" then "All applications" and finally "Internet Explorer". Try it as an experiment.

Originally Posted by kim jong il

Why try to change the default application as that only applies to the local computer anyway? When you tried "Open with" you may have failed to notice it also said "Recommended applications" and gives you the option of "All applications" at which point you could have selected "Open with" then "All applications" and finally "Internet Explorer". Try it as an experiment.

I tried it and unfortunately it appears not to work. The blue progress bar starts and then never progresses. I could leave it there all night and it will never load anything in.

Originally Posted by iPirate

Mac Safari doesn't save the folder with all the images. The page is thus text only (with lots of missing page thingys).

What Apple should do is make the .webarchive format like the .pages and .keynote formats, which is a folder that contains the necessary files inside. Just in the case of a webarchive, all it would need would be the original .html file and the images folder inside it. Something more open and cross-platform... and easy to use.

Webarchives also open in Textedit btw. Just a point of interest.

Yes this is what I meant - a more open or cross platform format so that others would be able to open and view archived web site files saved with Safari (or any browser for that matter) no matter what the platform or browser being used ie a standardised 'web archive' file format.

I tried opening one of my archived web sites with 'Text Edit' and it opens and all the content is there and the links work, though its not really ideal (I'm guessing Microsoft Word may be able to do the same though?)

Anyway I will try and convert my archived web sites to PDF's and see what the result is.

try an application called paparazzi (http://www.derailer.org/paparazzi/), it allows you to convert any webpage into a JPG, PNG, etc, it also supports safari's "web archive" format. Just drag the webarchive file onto paparazzi's icon, it will then allow you to save the archive out as a PNG or JPG file which can be viewed on anything (even iPods / iPhones).