Dreamweaver - Html as to Htm

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Html as to Htm

Lerbekmo

2005-12-22, 3:29 am

I started working within a company 6 mo. ago that uses Homesite to do their
website (amungst a number of other coding ways that I don't entirely
understand) and I've always used Dreaweaver, well, at a junior level for about
3-4 years now. I'm curious as to why Dreamweaver defaults to save it's html
files as htm - is there a difference, should I be weary? They've asked that I
default all of my htm files to html and I see I can add it in the XML but I
want to know why the change, and what's the difference?

Murray *TMM*

2005-12-22, 3:29 am

There is no difference. It's just a matter of style and preference.

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"Lerbekmo" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I started working within a company 6 mo. ago that uses Homesite to do their
> website (amungst a number of other coding ways that I don't entirely
> understand) and I've always used Dreaweaver, well, at a junior level for
> about
> 3-4 years now. I'm curious as to why Dreamweaver defaults to save it's
> html
> files as htm - is there a difference, should I be weary? They've asked
> that I
> default all of my htm files to html and I see I can add it in the XML but
> I
> want to know why the change, and what's the difference?
>

crash

2005-12-22, 6:19 am

When the web was originally created, *.htm was the preferred file extension
due to some computers not being able to recognize four digit extensions.
(as I recall)

As Mur said, here is no difference, they will both render fine.

Jon

"Lerbekmo" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I started working within a company 6 mo. ago that uses Homesite to do their
> website (amungst a number of other coding ways that I don't entirely
> understand) and I've always used Dreaweaver, well, at a junior level for
> about
> 3-4 years now. I'm curious as to why Dreamweaver defaults to save it's
> html
> files as htm - is there a difference, should I be weary? They've asked
> that I
> default all of my htm files to html and I see I can add it in the XML but
> I
> want to know why the change, and what's the difference?
>

Donna Casey

2005-12-22, 6:27 am

The biggest issue is whether your web server admin has set up the file
to auto default to loading .htm or .html as the primary extension. I am
a .htm fan, myself.

donna

crash wrote:
> When the web was originally created, *.htm was the preferred file extension
> due to some computers not being able to recognize four digit extensions.
> (as I recall)
>
> As Mur said, here is no difference, they will both render fine.
>
> Jon
>
> "Lerbekmo" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
> news:doc4t4$kti$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>
>
>
>

Murray *TMM*

2005-12-22, 6:35 am

I have never seen one that didn't have both, Donna....

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"Donna Casey" <infoREMOVETHIS@n2dreamweaver.com> wrote in message
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> The biggest issue is whether your web server admin has set up the file to
> auto default to loading .htm or .html as the primary extension. I am a
> .htm fan, myself.
>
> donna
>
> crash wrote:

John Waller

2005-12-22, 6:35 am

Just depends on the order of definition in the server config.

index.htm and index.html on the same domain in the same folder will lead to
confusion. I've seen it done.

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Murray *TMM*

2005-12-22, 6:35 am

The one mentioned first in the list of default filenames will be the one
picked. It doesn't confuse me a bit! 8)

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"John Waller" <johnw@REMOVETHISpinnacleweb.com.au> wrote in message
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> Just depends on the order of definition in the server config.
>
> index.htm and index.html on the same domain in the same folder will lead
> to confusion. I've seen it done.
>
> --
> Regards
>
> John Waller
>

Donna Casey

2005-12-22, 6:35 am

Murray *TMM* wrote:
> I have never seen one that didn't have both, Donna....
>

I've seen web servers that didn't serve up either if configured to serve
up .shtm or .cfm or .whatever

Web servers vary wildly and not all admins are created equally. Even if
they were, some hosting companies offer control panels to set the
default extension and not all people realize you can set more than one
or understand why you might want to.

The person asking might fall under that category if they don't yet
understand the "difference" between the two extensions.

:)

Donna

Gary White

2005-12-22, 6:39 am

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:54:04 -0600, "crash" <crash@bcdcdigital.com>
wrote:

>When the web was originally created, *.htm was the preferred file extension
>due to some computers not being able to recognize four digit extensions.
>(as I recall)

Actually, the reverse is true. In the beginning, Unix servers were
normally configured to use .html. When MS started getting into the web
server business, they were still using three character file extensions,
to they shortened it to .htm. Now days, I think it would be a very badly
configured server that wouldn't work with either.

Gary

John Waller

2005-12-22, 6:48 am

>The one mentioned first in the list of default filenames will be the one
picked.

Correct.

>It doesn't confuse me a bit! 8)

Nor me. Never has.

But when you have 2 identical filenames with .htm and .html extensions in
the same folder on the server, I've seen confused webmasters.

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Murray *TMM*

2005-12-22, 6:29 pm

Yeah. I've seen them confused even when the filenames are *not* the same....
8)

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"John Waller" <johnw@REMOVETHISpinnacleweb.com.au> wrote in message
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> picked.
>
> Correct.
>
>
> Nor me. Never has.
>
> But when you have 2 identical filenames with .htm and .html extensions in
> the same folder on the server, I've seen confused webmasters.
>
> --
> Regards
>
> John Waller
>

John Waller

2005-12-22, 6:29 pm

<rimshot>

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Joe Makowiec

2005-12-22, 6:29 pm

On 22 Dec 2005 in macromedia.dreamweaver, John Waller wrote:

> But when you have 2 identical filenames with .htm and .html
> extensions in the same folder on the server, I've seen confused
> webmasters.

Try on a *nix server, where index.HTML != index.html...

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John Waller

2005-12-22, 6:54 pm

>> But when you have 2 identical filenames with .htm and .html
>
> Try on a *nix server, where index.HTML != index.html...

Now that's even *more* confusing :-)

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