Htm vs. html extension

[babs]

I am teaching a Frontpage class -Intro and am not sure what the difference
between htm vs. html files are?? not good huh. I swore 2000 used to always
use the html ext. and now the 2003 seems to be using htm - Please clarify if
possible.

Thanks,
barb

 

[David Berry]

No difference. HTM and HTML files are the same thing. There was a time when
extensions could only have 3 letters, hence the .htm (pre-Windows 95 days
because of the old MS-DOS 8.3 file naming convention where filenames were
not allowed to be larger than 8 characters and extensions were limited to 3
characters. Many early editors like FP defaulted to .HTM rather than
..HTML)

You can use either extension

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

they're the same except for the home page then it matters, and depends on
what the server wants

..htm is a throw-back to the 3 character extension days.



|I am teaching a Frontpage class -Intro and am not sure what the difference
| between htm vs. html files are?? not good huh. I swore 2000 used to
always
| use the html ext. and now the 2003 seems to be using htm - Please clarify
if
| possible.
|
| Thanks,
| barb

 

[Charles W Davis]

There has been no change between FP 2000 and FP2003. However, many hosting
companies have two home pages set up. When you first publish, you should use
IE to open the site live and delete the one that you don't intend to use:
index.htm or index.html