[WEB4LIB] Which is appropriate .htm or .html?

[David Vaughan]

As others have already said, either is okay as long as your server is
happy.  However, I recall finding while designing our website that some
browsers (I think it was IE4.x) were not highlighting followed links
correctly with one of these extensions (.html probably, since I see that
my site is standardized on .htm).  We are using IIS4.0 as our server.
This may, however, be an MS problem rather than a general issue.

David

David S. Vaughan
Wentworth Libraries
Hamilton, ON, Canada

dvaughan at wentworth.library.on.ca

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	jay [SMTP:jay at ccpl.ci.corpus-christi.tx.us]
> Sent:	Wednesday, April 21, 1999 11:23 AM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	[WEB4LIB] Which is appropriate .htm or .html?
> 
> Thanks to all who responded w/r/t my question on SHTML...
> 
> I've got another one: what are the rules governing the use of the
> .htm/.html extensions in webpages? I've got an .html extension for the
> main/index page on our website. The rest use .htm. This doesn't seem
> to
> cause any problems or consternation with anyone. Does it really
> matter?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> JHF