Filenames (was [Sussex] html and stuff)

[Geoff Teale]

Dominic wrote:
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> Just a thought....  Is there any standard for the file extension that
> should be used for html files?
> I don't know, but I would expect that the original extension would be
> .html which may have been corrupted by the MS desire for a 
> 8.3 character
> file name.
> 
> Anyone like to shed some more educated light on this?

Well, technically the file extension shouldn't matter - the web browser
should determin it by other means. The W3C Recommendation reads as follows:

============================================================================
==
HTML documents are sent over the Internet as a sequence of bytes accompanied
by encoding information (described in the section on character encodings).
The structure of the transmission, termed a message entity, is defined by
[RFC2045] and [RFC2616]. A message entity with a content type of "text/html"
represents an HTML document.
============================================================================
==

Reality is often not this way however and several web based tools have
behaviour dependant on file extension.  It should be noted that the W3C
website uses .html.  

.htm is almost definitely a conformance to the DOS idea that all filenames
have a 3 character extension.
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