shtml,html or htm?
Recently I have installed a perl message forum script and it asked what sort of files it would like the message pages to be rendered as. I chose the default of .shtml not really knowing any different. It works fine in my home broswer of IE5 but when I use the computers at college (Navigator version 4.08) it renders the .shtml pages as code rather than a webpage.
Should I have chosen .html? and what really is the difference between .html and .htm?
Thanks
Brendan
Anonymous posted this at 17:54 — 7th June 2000.
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.html and .htm are the same extension in 4 and 3 character format. Back in the days of 16-bit operating systems all extensions were 3 characters long. .shtml (or .shtm) stands for server-parsed HTML. Commands are interpreted by the server and replaced by standard HTML or text before the data is returned to the client (much like ASP or PHP).
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