Re: htm v. html
by Christopher Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>
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Tamara Abbey <t_abbey(at)USA.net>,
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G'day Tamara,
At 20:54 27/03/00 -0600, Tamara Abbey wrote:
>In English, what is the difference between htm and html file extensions?
.html was the original version. Because MS-DOS could only handle 3-digit
file extensions, .htm was introduced. It has persisted on Wintel platorms
for backward compatibility reasons.
Strictly speaking, server-parsed html pages used a .shtml extension, and a
.stm under windows.
Nowadays, .html, .htm, .php, .asp, .shtm, and a host of other extensions
are in use. It is up to the configuration of the web server as to which
are accepted, which are server-parsed before being served, and which one(s)
is the default.
Chris Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>
Institute of Land and Food Resources
University of Melbourne http://www.landfood.unimelb.edu.au
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