[Maf] Maf questions and comments

[E. Baud]

Thanks for the answers ;)

1- is it scheduled to have :
- maf://http://ebdjpg.free.fr/download/thaiviet_.maff working ?
- maf://http://ebdjpg.free.fr/download/thaiviet_.zip working ?

2- Is it scheduled to have online handling of .maff ?
( http://ebdjpg.free.fr/download/thaiviet_.maff )

3-
> You need a time. You don't need to name the folder in the MAF archive
> 1108979599663_771-like as you put it, but it *must* have at least one
> sub folder. It makes catering for multiple pages in archives easier.
I understand that for your MAF archive creation (using multiple pages), you
think that it is better to have 1 subfolder for each, but I think that the
format would be greatly enhanced if it also accepts archive without folders.
Then, anybody would be able to create such MAF files easily (with winzip).
To my point of view, it's only a parameter on the .rdf file to make optionnal,
isn't it ?
- You are seeming to say that the primary directory in the archive can be other
than "1108979599663_771"-like. Then, if it's "_ebdjpg/" directory, what have I
to put in the .rdf file to make it work ?


Regards,
E. Baud.

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Quoting Christopher Ottley <xknight at users.sourceforge.net>:

> E. Baud wrote:
>
> >1- I can't make maf:// protocol working: I only get a blank page.
> >maf://ebdjpg.free.fr/download/thaiviet_.maff is making a blank page.
> >
> >
> The maf:// protocol requires a sub protocol-ed URL in order to work. For
> example
>
maf://file:///home/cottley/mafs/ANSI%20String%20Class.maff!1107696913195_925/index.htm
> will open the file 1107696913195_925/index.htm that's in the archive
> ANSI%20String%20Class.maff on the local file system. I designed the
> maf:// protocol with two things in mind, you could bookmark a page in an
> archive (you can't bookmark the page in the temp folder because that's
> cleared) and to allow easy access to archives indexed and searched using
> my Nariva desktop search engine (http://nariva.sf.net/). Unfortunately I
> haven't implemented support for any other protocol other than file:// so
> maf://http://ebdjpg.free.fr/download/thaiviet_.maff would have been the
> correct format, but it's not implemented.
>
>
> >2- When browsing on a .maff file, I get a popup "opening file.maff", with
> >"you have chosen to open file.maff, which is a Mozilla Archive Format, What
> >should Firefox do with this file: Open with popup_browse/save_to_disk". The
> >issue is that the "OK" button stay grey (not-clickable) whatever I select...
> >(you can try on http://ebdjpg.free.fr/download/thaiviet_.maff )
> >
> >
> The handling of online .maff files hasn't been implemented.
>
>
> >3- I tried to modify index.rdf, but it seems that archivetime is mandatory;
> >isn't it? What if I doesn't want primary directory as
> 1108979599663_771-like,
> >for the archive structure ? (for example, if I want a zip/MAF archive
> without
> >any directory inside)
> >
> >
> You need a time. You don't need to name the folder in the MAF archive
> 1108979599663_771-like as you put it, but it *must* have at least one
> sub folder. It makes catering for multiple pages in archives easier.
>
> Regards,
> Christopher.
>
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