SafariWar 1.0

SafariWar will open and display Konqueror web archive format.

This format is used by the Konqueror web browser and file manager to save complete web sites including images. This is similar to Apples web archive format used by Safari. In contrast to the latter the Konqueror web archive can be opened by any modern operating system: It is nothing else than a gzip-tar-archive with the adapted web content inside, mainly an index.html file and corresponding images.

Therefore any system with the tar utility installed is capable to open and display the contents of the war archive.

The use of such a non-proprietary format is a big advantage. In these days an Apple Macintosh computer is able to run at least three different operating systems, with the appropriate software all of them at the same time: Mac OS X, various Linux systems and Windows XP/Vista.

So the war archive can be shared easily, at least between Mac OS X and Linux. As a side effect the generated war files generally are smaller in size because of its compressed nature.