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PRONOM, etc.

Dan Tobias at 03:13, 14 May 2017

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Category:Netscape

Ma95032 at 19:01, 20 January 2016

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Dan Tobias at 13:40, 9 February 2014

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Dan Tobias at 12:08, 1 December 2012

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Dan Tobias: Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Web |subcat2=Web browser files }} Netscape kept its bookmarks in a file named '''bookmarks.html''' in the user profile directory. ..."

2012-12-01T04:18:21Z

Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Web |subcat2=Web browser files }} Netscape kept its bookmarks in a file named '''bookmarks.html''' in the user profile directory. ..."

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{{FormatInfo
|formattype=electronic
|subcat=Web
|subcat2=Web browser files
}}

Netscape kept its bookmarks in a file named '''bookmarks.html''' in the user profile directory. It was (kinda, sorta) [[HTML]], with a weird doctype specific to Netscape and some offenses against HTML decency like odd nesting of elements. It used some particular combinations of tags and attributes to represent the bookmark structure. Specific items changed over time in different versions as new features were added, but the basic structure remained similar to allow bookmarks to be shared between different browser versions. The format remained in use in early Mozilla browsers before switching to the [[JSON]]-based format used in the current Firefox.

Doctype: '''<!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>'''

== References ==
* [http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-html Import bookmarks from Netscape to Firefox]
* [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa753582%28VS.85%29.aspx Documentation of Netscape bookmark format] (in Microsoft site, weirdly enough)

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 |subcat=Web
 |subcat2=Web browser files
 }}
-Netscape kept its bookmarks in a file named '''bookmarks.html''' (or '''bookmark.htm''' in versions for archaic operating systems permitting only 8+2 filenames) in the user profile directory. It was (kinda, sorta) [[HTML]], with a weird doctype specific to Netscape and some offenses against HTML decency like odd nesting of elements. It used some particular combinations of tags and attributes to represent the bookmark structure. Specific items changed over time in different versions as new features were added, but the basic structure remained similar to allow bookmarks to be shared between different browser versions. The format remained in use in early Mozilla browsers before switching to the [[SQLite]]-based bookmark database (with automatic backups in a [[JSON]]-based format) used in the current Firefox (since version 3.0).
+Netscape kept its bookmarks in a file named '''bookmarks.html''' (or '''bookmark.htm''' in versions for archaic operating systems permitting only 8+3 filenames) in the user profile directory. It was (kinda, sorta) [[HTML]], with a weird doctype specific to Netscape and some offenses against HTML decency like odd nesting of elements. It used some particular combinations of tags and attributes to represent the bookmark structure. Specific items changed over time in different versions as new features were added, but the basic structure remained similar to allow bookmarks to be shared between different browser versions. The format remained in use in early Mozilla browsers before switching to the [[SQLite]]-based bookmark database (with automatic backups in a [[JSON]]-based format) used in the current Firefox (since version 3.0).
 Doctype: '''<!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>'''
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 == Date format ==
-Netscape bookmark file dates, e.g., the <tt>ADD_DATE</tt> field, are in ''seconds'' since January 1, 1970.
+Netscape bookmark file dates, e.g., the <tt>ADD_DATE</tt> field, are in ''seconds'' since January 1, 1970 (see [[Unix time]]).
 == See also ==

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 }}
-Netscape kept its bookmarks in a file named '''bookmarks.html''' (or '''bookmark.htm''' in versions for archaic operating systems permitting only 8+2 filenames) in the user profile directory. It was (kinda, sorta) [[HTML]], with a weird doctype specific to Netscape and some offenses against HTML decency like odd nesting of elements. It used some particular combinations of tags and attributes to represent the bookmark structure. Specific items changed over time in different versions as new features were added, but the basic structure remained similar to allow bookmarks to be shared between different browser versions. The format remained in use in early Mozilla browsers before switching to the [[DB (SQLite)|SQLite]]-based bookmark database (with automatic backups in a [[JSON]]-based format) used in the current Firefox (since version 3.0).
+Netscape kept its bookmarks in a file named '''bookmarks.html''' (or '''bookmark.htm''' in versions for archaic operating systems permitting only 8+2 filenames) in the user profile directory. It was (kinda, sorta) [[HTML]], with a weird doctype specific to Netscape and some offenses against HTML decency like odd nesting of elements. It used some particular combinations of tags and attributes to represent the bookmark structure. Specific items changed over time in different versions as new features were added, but the basic structure remained similar to allow bookmarks to be shared between different browser versions. The format remained in use in early Mozilla browsers before switching to the [[SQLite]]-based bookmark database (with automatic backups in a [[JSON]]-based format) used in the current Firefox (since version 3.0).
 Doctype: '''<!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>'''

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	* [http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-html Import bookmarks from Netscape to Firefox]		* [http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-html Import bookmarks from Netscape to Firefox]
	* [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa753582%28VS.85%29.aspx Documentation of Netscape bookmark format] (in Microsoft site, weirdly enough)		* [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa753582%28VS.85%29.aspx Documentation of Netscape bookmark format] (in Microsoft site, weirdly enough)
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	Doctype: '''<!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>'''		Doctype: '''<!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>'''
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		+	== Date format ==
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		+	Netscape bookmark file dates, e.g., the <tt>ADD_DATE</tt> field, are in ''seconds'' since January 1, 1970.

	== See also ==		== See also ==

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 }}
-Netscape kept its bookmarks in a file named '''bookmarks.html''' (or '''bookmark.htm''' in versions for archaic operating systems permitting only 8+2 filenames) in the user profile directory. It was (kinda, sorta) [[HTML]], with a weird doctype specific to Netscape and some offenses against HTML decency like odd nesting of elements. It used some particular combinations of tags and attributes to represent the bookmark structure. Specific items changed over time in different versions as new features were added, but the basic structure remained similar to allow bookmarks to be shared between different browser versions. The format remained in use in early Mozilla browsers before switching to the [[DB (SQLite)|SQLite]]-based bookmark database (with automatic backups in a [[JSON]]-based format) used in the current Firefox.
+Netscape kept its bookmarks in a file named '''bookmarks.html''' (or '''bookmark.htm''' in versions for archaic operating systems permitting only 8+2 filenames) in the user profile directory. It was (kinda, sorta) [[HTML]], with a weird doctype specific to Netscape and some offenses against HTML decency like odd nesting of elements. It used some particular combinations of tags and attributes to represent the bookmark structure. Specific items changed over time in different versions as new features were added, but the basic structure remained similar to allow bookmarks to be shared between different browser versions. The format remained in use in early Mozilla browsers before switching to the [[DB (SQLite)|SQLite]]-based bookmark database (with automatic backups in a [[JSON]]-based format) used in the current Firefox (since version 3.0).
 Doctype: '''<!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>'''

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 == References ==
-* [http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-html Import bookmarks from Netscape to Firefox]
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130620163622/https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-html Import bookmarks from Netscape to Firefox]
 * [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa753582%28VS.85%29.aspx Documentation of Netscape bookmark format] (in Microsoft site, weirdly enough)
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