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fiatjaf · 12h
OK, makes sense, but it's always better to support a single standard than multiple. If you were to pick a single format to support for all web archives going forward forever, what would pick: WACZ or...
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SingleFile is suitable for almost all content-based web pages, while WACZ will only be used for pages that SingleFIle cannot fully archive, especially dynamic web pages (web applications) that will change the rendering data within the page with interaction. But if you can only choose one to suit all situations, then WACZ is the only choice. I used to build my own private web archive workflow and finally chose SingleFile as the main target archive format. WACZ is an alternative in extreme cases. In general, I do not think that web archives should allow readers to interact with web pages. If so, I will save multiple versions for multiple dynamic versions.
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Driveway Situation ❋ · 8h
Without archiving "dynamic" stuff,, you lose the ability to archive and share most "Interesting" Content - like the contents of a private Twitter Group Chat,, say. Most web apps that deal in User Generated or Paywalled content do it via "dynamic" interactions. An archiving strategy that doesn't al...