I must say that I find it quite alarming that any professional web
developers believe that a CMS must produce URLs for dynamically
generated pages (not files) which say .htm or .html on the end.
My colleagues and I have "adopted" sites built by such developers, and I
can tell you that misconceptions like the necessity of .htm or .html
suffices were only the tip of iceberg.
If a site is actually a legacy static site made up of files, then .xxxx
might be relevant (although setting up webserver rules to abstract away
file suffice is pretty trivial, and it's much nicer for URL readability
and SEO), but nowadays if you're building a dynamic site on a decent
CMS, adding the .html (never .htm - that demonstrates dubious taste in
server OSs) to the end of URLs for dynamically generated content is
painfully old school and, as the W3C and other posters have pointed out,
quite unnecessary - sort of like a "www" on the front of a web URL is
(or should be).
Dave
Rob Enslin wrote:
Hi peeps,
I recently started noticing that our CMS system generated .htm pages
where previously the system produced .html pages. I questioned the
support staff and was told that the W3C deemed .html as non-standard
file extensions (or rather .htm were more-widely accepted as the standard)
Is this true? Any thoughts?
Cheers,
Rob
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