To play a bit of devil's advocate here... Lea de Groot wrote:
5 chars doesnt worry me when it is so clearly a usability aid to say 'web page' to the user constantly;
so clearly...any evidence?
to Joe Public who is savvy enough to look at the URI they are clicking on,
the two things seem at odds...all the Joe Publics I know never even noticed the browser's status bar before.
everything that we know, a .html extension clearly implies 'Click here to see a web page about xxx - nothing tricky is going to happen, you will just get a simple page which won't do nasty things to your machine' and improve the probability of click.
but then "cool URIs don't change", so you need to ensure that, once you change to something like PHP or similar, you keep the .html file extension and then force the server to parse through all files with that extension as well; why not just sidestep the issue?
I usually do multiviews in apache, but add an extra closing slash to the URL even if it's a single document. Works a treat and looks tidy in the address bar - only got to watch out for issues with relative paths and images/stylesheets.
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