Viewing MHT inside of tiddler?

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Mark S.

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May 31, 2017, 5:41:23 PM5/31/17
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I don't know if this is part of normal FF install, or if it's one of my plugins, but I can view MHT files on Firefox.

My attempts to embed it using _canonical_uri and the "<object...>" tag didn't work. Is there any
way I can make alternative media formats like MHT view inside a tiddler?

Thanks,
Mark

PMario

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Jun 1, 2017, 5:02:27 AM6/1/17
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Hi Mark,

It seems this format isn't well supported in browsers. see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHTML
So it will be hard to get something working.

-m

Mat

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Jun 1, 2017, 8:21:18 AM6/1/17
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Did you try iframe? But my brief research just now does imply one need browser addons.

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Mark S.

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Jun 1, 2017, 9:44:49 AM6/1/17
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Thanks Mat, that was the ticket. Have to see if the plugins still work after the end of the year.

Lost Admin

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Jun 1, 2017, 10:54:25 AM6/1/17
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Given the nature of MHTML (storing html and related files such as images in mime-encoded single-file format) and Tiddlywiki (storing HTML and optionally related files such as images in HTML), It might be nice to have a MHT import/export plugin to translate between the two instead of keeping the native MHT format inside Tiddlywiki.

Just a thought.

Mark S.

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Jun 3, 2017, 6:10:52 PM6/3/17
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Hi Mario,

The support for MHT isn't too bad right now, though I see that the Chrome version doesn't include images and Firefox support may end in November (with a lot of things).

The idea of MHT is certainly good. Being able to save whole web pages in a single file is very useful. The only thing more useful might be a way to view epubs embedded in a TW document. I've found an epub viewer for FF, but alas it doesn't work as an embedded viewer (it's more of a stand-alone application).

Thanks,
Mark
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