htm or html? What is the difference? Does it matter?

[Guest]

What is the difference between htm and html pages? Does it matter if a site
is a mix of both or should it be one or another?
I am using Frontpage seemingly without a problem but does the above issue
cause problems for viewers of my sites?

 

[Steve Easton]

Either is fine, and they can be a mix of both.
The only "requirement" is that your home page have the proper extension

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[Thomas A. Rowe]

There is no difference. The only page in a site that would need the .html would be the default
document (home page) if required by your web host.

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[Andrew Murray]

No difference.

htm follows from the MSDOS days of the 8.3 file name format

Html is from the Windows 95 onwards days when long filenames were
introduced. Both are Hypertext Markup Language.

For your info, Frontpage defaults to *.htm filenames for some reason.
you can save it as whatever you like when you save a page, type the file
name in full, ie "home.html" and it will stay that way.

However the server *may* change it to whatever is required for its default
homepage file name i.e it may require something like "home.htm" (and
truncate the 'l' from the end).

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Actually .html has nothing to do within W95
- it is from the Unix world and you will rarely find a need for it on anything but a Unix type (non-Windows) server

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| No difference.
|
| htm follows from the MSDOS days of the 8.3 file name format
|
| Html is from the Windows 95 onwards days when long filenames were
| introduced. Both are Hypertext Markup Language.
|
| For your info, Frontpage defaults to *.htm filenames for some reason.
| you can save it as whatever you like when you save a page, type the file
| name in full, ie "home.html" and it will stay that way.
|
| However the server *may* change it to whatever is required for its default
| homepage file name i.e it may require something like "home.htm" (and
| truncate the 'l' from the end).
|
| | > What is the difference between htm and html pages? Does it matter if a
| > site
| > is a mix of both or should it be one or another?
| > I am using Frontpage seemingly without a problem but does the above issue
| > cause problems for viewers of my sites?
|
|

 

[Andrew Murray]

but the first I heard of 'long file names' was with the birth of Windows
95 - so that's how I made that assumption.