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    Default html instead of htm

    When Xara exports your website, it exports it as .htm
    Is there any way of telling Xara to export pages as .html?

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    Default Re: html instead of htm

    Quote Originally Posted by Rik View Post
    Rik, when Xara exports your website, it exports it as .htm
    Is there any way of telling Xara to export pages as .html?
    Set the page filename index to index.html.
    All other pages will then export as HTML and the assets folder is renamed to index_html_files.

    Acorn
    Acorn - installed Xara software: Cloud+/Pro+ and most others back through time (to CC's Artworks). Contact for technical remediation/consultancy for your web designs.
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    Default Re: html instead of htm

    Quote Originally Posted by Acorn View Post
    Set the page filename index to index.html.
    All other pages will then export as HTML and the assets folder is renamed to index_html_files.
    Acorn
    It was as easy as that!
    Thanks, Acorn. Much appreciated.

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    Default Re: html instead of htm

    I asked the question, so as to satisfy a customer.
    He said that .htm is a very old format going back to the DOS days and many browsers will have problems with it.

    To be honest, I've never experienced any problems.

    What do you think?

    Featured Artist on Xara Xone . May 2011
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    Default Re: html instead of htm

    It does represent when windows could only have 3 letter file extensions.

    If a site has two index files, index.htm and index.html the brower will always open the index.html file, even if the index.htm is newer. So for that reason alone it is better to use .html Frequently people update their existing sites in Xara and then can't see the changes. Because their old files have html extensions.

    Other than that I am certainly not aware of any browsers having problems with .htm files. And you might remind your customer that Windows computers outnumber Mac computers by about 10 to 1.

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    Default Re: html instead of htm

    Quote Originally Posted by gwpriester View Post
    It does represent when windows could only have 3 letter file extensions.

    If a site has two index files, index.htm and index.html the brower will always open the index.html file, even if the index.htm is newer. So for that reason alone it is better to use .html Frequently people update their existing sites in Xara and then can't see the changes. Because their old files have html extensions.

    Other than that I am certainly not aware of any browsers having problems with .htm files. And you might remind your customer that Windows computers outnumber Mac computers by about 10 to 1.
    Thanks, Gary.

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    Default Re: html instead of htm

    Typically, a web server, without a full URL will first look for index.html. If not found then index.htm. If not found then complain.

    Xara serves up static HTML that can be run from anywhere. So if you have a very old system that uses 8.3 format then the HTM suffix is safer.
    This covers embedded code in firmware on older microprocessors (these still exist).

    The trick is not to mix and match.

    I only ever use HTML extensions when a client insists. Modern OSs, browsers, SEO and servers don't care.

    Acorn
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