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zMaestro 
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 Topic: .HTM or .HTML
Posted: 06 August 2003 at 12:57pm |
i wanted to share this question:
- Is there any difference between naming a file .htm or .html?
and if they are exactly the same why are they both exists, especially the 4 extension letters .html?
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michael
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Posted: 06 August 2003 at 1:15pm |
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There is no difference, possibly one was tried to be introduced with a new version of HTML. Use whatever you prefer.
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eksimba
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Posted: 06 August 2003 at 2:00pm |
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I think that .html came first, and was used by unix-based servers of the time. The letters were simply representative of the acronym for Hyper-Text Markup Language. With the proliferation of DOS and Windows-based servers, which use three letter filename suffixes, .html was shortened to .htm, which then became popular. Today there is no functional difference between the two.
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WebWiz-Bruce
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Posted: 06 August 2003 at 2:02pm |
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I was lead to believe that is was to do with Unix OS's using an extension with 4 characters (html) and Windows 3.1 needing to use 3 character extenstions (htm). As most extensions on Windows still use 3 characters I tend to use .htm
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hpnadig
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Posted: 13 August 2003 at 12:55pm |
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Well I donot prefer .htm 'cos I design in Linux..
But is that the only difference btn them? .. I wonder...
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Bunce
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Posted: 13 August 2003 at 4:41pm |
As long as the browser / web server can identify and process them, it doesn't matter what extension you give it.
Cheers,
Andrew
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There have been many, many posts made throughout the world...
This was one of them.
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hpnadig
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Posted: 14 August 2003 at 7:10am |
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yeah! thaz right...
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KCWebMonkey
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Posted: 14 August 2003 at 6:53pm |
Found this on experts-exchange.com:
"The difference is that htm is from the old DOS eight.three naming conventions. No file name could be longer than eight characters and no extension could be more than three characters. Nowdays, the only real difference is that some servers require the index page of a site to be index.html. Otherwise they are interchangeable. Similar to .jpg and.jpeg. Of course if you are referencing a URL, it is necessary to use the right one for that particular page. "
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.HTM or .HTML