extensions

[chuck]

Is there a difference between .htm and .html? Because i use dreamweaver and by default it saves everything as .htm
cheers
chuck

[chuck]

Is there a difference between .htm and .html? Because i use dreamweaver and by default it saves everything as .htm
cheers
chuck

[Mark (theKeeper)]

Generally speaking, you'll usually be safest if you always make your "index" or "default" page extension ".htm". Your other pages can be html.

I'm not going to go into a lot of detail on this right now - i'm working - but any problems you might have because of this would be server software based; nothing to do with browsers or visitor's operating systems.

Check your preferences in DW. I believe you can tell it NOT to do this. Also... when creating a page/site and using any scripting at all, you may see DW do this if you've told it to be as backward compatible as possible.

TIP: all browsers look for an "index" file first by default. MS browsers can also look for a file named "default". By i've seen this only rarely now adays. "Index" is usually used; i.e. "index.htm".
This is what allows folks to NOT have to type the name of the first page of a Website in the url. By default, and for simplicity sake, the first page is usually named "index".

Hope that helps.

[Jen Worden]

Hmm. Well yes and no, Mark. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

If you happen to be on a IIS server you're correct, as the hierarchy goes : default.asp default.htm index.htm index.html.

However, if you're on an Apache server it goes index.html, index.htm.

FYI: the difference emanated from Win 3.1 days when DOS could only handle 8.3 filenames-8 letter name/3 letter extension(oh! how I remember those days!)

FWIW: W3C has never advocated .htm

cfn ... Jen
Jen Worden
Web Developer
www.meadoworks.com

[chuck]

so basically,
having extensions that end in.htm won't affect anything? is that correct?
cheers
chuck