Boring Dreamweaver MX tech query

[Lazzo]

Greetings!

This isn't exactly important, I would just like to know about this.

Through some strange brain and typing quirk, I have never liked the "l" on the end of "html". So I've tried changing it in the MMDocumentTypes.xml document on line 3 and line 179 but it makes no difference to the extension choice in DW's preferences. In DW 4 there was an option to change it.

.html always looks untidy to me but .htm doesn't. I haven't come across any need for the "l" on the end yet!

Has anybody got an answer?

Cheers, Lazzo

 

[Nummi_G4]

Get GoLive (that is not really an answer is it ?)

 

[Lazzo]

You're right Nummi, it isn't, but what the hell, I get bored too!

 

[MDLarson]

HTML stands for Hyper-Text-Markup-Language. The reason .htm was used vs. .html stems back to Windows' file naming limitation where you could only use a 3 digit extension. I believe Windows systems can (and do) use more than 3 digits on different files, thus making the .html extension the preferred extension. You should probably fix that brain quirk because HTML really is 4 digits, not 3!

 

[Lazzo]

Thanks - as the latest DW is no doubt available for Windows as well, MacroMedia probably decided that feature was a waste of time. Not that it was an important 'feature' anyway.

As for brain quirks - this is England. We go to hot countries for a holiday in the middle of a swealtering English summer and stay here in winter.

Cheers, Lazzo