Mozilla Archive Format

Mozilla Archive Format
Filename extension .maff
Internet media type application/x-maff
Magic number 04 03 4b 50
Developed by Christopher Ottley,[1] Paolo Amadini[1]
Initial release 4 May 2004 (2004-05-04)
Type of format Web-archive, data compression
Container for Web-pages
Extended from ZIP
Open format? Yes for the Specification of MAFF file format;[2]
(MAF Firefox Addon)[3] under MPL 1.1, GPL 2.0, LGPL 2.1, or any later version of these licenses;
Documentation is under Copyright;[4]
Website maf.mozdev.org/maff-file-format.html/

The Mozilla Archive Format (MAFF) is a web page archiving format provided by Firefox through an extension.[5] It is used to save one or more web pages together with their associated audio, video, and other related web resources to a single file.[6] Unlike MHTML, which uses MIME encoding within a single HTML file, MAFF compresses the page into a ZIP container file.[7]

For alternative "page-as-a-file" formats, see MHTML (Created for Internet Explorer, compatible with many browsers), Webarchive (Safari), and Chrome's SingleFile extension (which uses the data URI scheme to package everything in a single .html file).

Format Licensing

MAFF is an open file format. The file format specification is published.[2]

See also

External links

Sources cited

  1. 1 2 "MAF project members". Retrieved 9 September 2013.
  2. 1 2 "The MAFF specification". Retrieved 9 September 2013.
  3. "Firefox Addon: MAF - Mozilla Archive Format". Retrieved 9 September 2013.
  4. "User's Manual Firefox Addon: MAF - Mozilla Archive Format". Retrieved 9 September 2013.
  5. Christopher Ottley; Paolo Amadini (18 September 2011). "Mozilla Archive Format, with MHT and Faithful Save". addons.mozilla.org. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
  6. "About the MAFF file format". maf.mozdev.org. 2011. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
  7. "Mozilla Archive Format". maf.mozdev.org. 2011. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
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