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Seems like a good way to get a bazillion new formats that we won't be able to read anymore in 5 years.
by staz 11y ago
Seems like a good way to get a bazillion new formats that we won't be able to read anymore in 5 years.
- Houshalter 11y agoBut that's another advantage. Each image would have to be distributed alongside it's javascript decoder. Even if the format is abandoned, the decoder will still be there, and it will still work on that webpage.
- ant6n 11y agoWhich means you need JavaScript just to look at the file. Does web archive store js along with the content?
- acdha 11y agoYes – modern web archiving tools capture JavaScript, CSS, etc. The basic support where they just download URLs found in HTML has been around for years but the current best-practice is to use a real browser engine (e.g. PhantomJS, Firefox) which has either been integrated to store directly or simply is using a proxy like https://github.com/internetarchive/warcprox https://github.com/internetarchive/warcprox which adds every requested resource to a WARC file (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_ARChive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_ARChive).
- andyana 11y agoIf they don't, they should.