Amphersand said:
Whats the difference between .html and .htm
And does it make any difference if its written .HTM in caps????
A few years after the Web had gotten started, Windows users started wanting to be part of the action. But do to limitations of Windows at the time (which restricted file names to 8 characters plus a three character extension) web naming standards (which had worked fine for Unix and Mac based systems) needed to be altered. This is why Microsoft's servers prefer
htm to
html and how
jpeg and
mpeg got shortened to
jpg and
mpg.
Now that Windows has caught up with the rest of the computing world, it isn't a requirement to use the shortened extensions any more. The only place you'll have issues is on MS servers which want to see
index.htm rather than
index.html.
At one point there was even
htmld which had the same "package" quality (HTML text document with images) that TextEdit's
rtfd documents have today.
I just tried uploading some stuff with these file extentions and it was all over the place. Im guessing it was because of the browser not liking the extentions?
You'll need to define
"all over the place" if you want help... All browsers should be fine with any version of
HTML,
html,
HTM or
htm.
If you are playing with these extensions
after you have made links within your pages... then yeah, you've got problems. If a link is looking for
page.html and you've change that page's name to
page.HTM, the link is broken. Browsers aren't going to attempt to second guess what you were linking to, they either see exactly what you put or they return a
404 error.
