RE: New site

Lee,

How would you deal with Cold Fusion then?  I must *certainly* be
unprofessional because it is not a .html extension.  Please.

Focus more on the elements of good site architecture, design, whathaveyou,
but please lets not start judging when it appears you don't know all the
facts.

Eric J Hoffman
Director of Internet Initiatives
Meagher & Geer, PLLP

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]On Behalf Of Leland V. Lammert
> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 1999 8:46 AM
> To: Mike Taylor
> Cc: hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org; hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> Subject: Re: New site
>
>
> At 04:31 AM 1/28/99 -0500, Mike Taylor wrote:
> >>
> >>However, a lot of programs still default to .htm for some reason. It'll
> >>work, but it's not "right" and looks unprofessional. Since most
> computers
> >>can handle more than 8.3, there's no reason why you shouldn't just save
> >>your files on your computer as *.html
> >
> >
> >How does using a certain file extension make a *file* look
> unprofessional?
> >What reason is there to add one extra character instead of just
> using HTM?
> >Answer:  there's no reason at all.  C'mon, this point is a bit
> silly.   I'd
> >be interested in official documentation indicating "right" and
> "wrong" file
> >extensions because I doubt any exist.
> >
> Mike,
>
> I would have to agree with the statement. If you let a site take '.htm'
> extensions, it means you are subscribing to Gates'ism - Microsoft
> CREATED the
> .htm extension to be different. The .html extension is the W3C *original*
> standard, which, IMHO, any professional would support.
>
> If you publish a site with .htm, you're just too lazy to make a
> single change
> to the default page, .. which, IMHO, should *also* be *named*
> index.html (or,
> you do not know your publishing software well enough, .. or you
> don't care -
> two additional reasons to label someone 'less than professional').
>
>         Lee
>
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>    Leland V. Lammert, PhD                        Chief Scientist
>    Omnitec Corporation                      Network Consulting
>        lvl(at)omnitec.net                          www.omnitec.net
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