[Resolved] Basic HTML question

[1901gt]

Basic HTML question

I found this line is my Uni's guide book:

file names must be 8 or less characters in length followed by a three character extension to ensure compatiblity with UNIX servers (eg default.htm)

Does that mean UNIX servers cannot recognise index.html? :hehe:

 

[Daniel]

This is mainly from the 90s, due to compatibility issues.

You can use .html fine most of the time now :tu: (Although .htm was created for this reason)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.3_filename

The above link should help explain it to you.

Dan

 

[1901gt]

Strange. I don't understand why my school is teaching the students to code xhtml/css and make it compatible with Netscape 4 even.

 

[Daniel]

Strange. I don't understand why my school is teaching the students to code xhtml/css and make it compatible with Netscape 4 even.

Netscape 4 was what - 1997? That's 11 years ago! Go yell at your teacher, or better yet - do some learning in your own time at home. You'll no doubt find it much more productive than learning stuff that's been deprecated for 5+ years.

On the other hand, at least your school is teaching your CSS, rather than the constant encouragement to use tables like mine.

Best of luck, :tu:

Dan

 

[xrvel]

This is mainly from the 90s, due to compatibility issues.

You can use .html fine most of the time now :tu: (Although .htm was created for this reason)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.3_filename

The above link should help explain it to you.

Dan

Hi, Dan.
Which one should i choose, 'htm' or 'html' as my file extension?

Kurniawan.

 

[1901gt]

Netscape 4 was what - 1997? That's 11 years ago! Go yell at your teacher, or better yet - do some learning in your own time at home. You'll no doubt find it much more productive than learning stuff that's been deprecated for 5+ years.

On the other hand, at least your school is teaching your CSS, rather than the constant encouragement to use tables like mine.

Best of luck, :tu:

Dan

I already know xhtml and css. But that line in the guidebook took me by surprise. Lolx.

 

[Peter]

Unfortunately what you learn at colleges can be somewhat outdated so this is no great surprise.

However it is good practice to try to make things work in as many browsers as you can. It is upto you of course how far you go. The best bet is to find some usage charts and make a decision on when it is o more beneficial to support a certain browser version.

This is unfortunately necessary as there are many people who never update their software. I know people who run for example 98 and never updated the operating system (I also know people who never use a firewall or anti virus and they are convinced they have never had a virus).

Som sites are very restrictive on what browsers they support. Microsoft are renowned for this as much of their technologies only work on Internet Explorer. This means according to for example w3schools usage charts that 40% of the internet users are unable to use the site.

 

[Daniel]

This is mainly from the 90s, due to compatibility issues.

You can use .html fine most of the time now :tu: (Although .htm was created for this reason)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.3_filename

The above link should help explain it to you.

Dan

Hi, Dan.
Which one should i choose, 'htm' or 'html' as my file extension?

Kurniawan.

It shouldn't affect it, but I prefer .htm as it's shorter! :tu:

 

[Peter]

It shouldn't affect it, but I prefer .htm as it's shorter! :tu:

The only file that *MAY* be affected is the index file. It is the web server software that decides which page to display if none is specified. Using index.htm for example when the server software is not configured to use that as the main page will cause a 404.

 

[TwistMyArm]

I found this line is my Uni's guide book:



Does that mean UNIX servers cannot recognise index.html? :hehe:

Ouch... seeing as the 8.3 naming convention is for Windows servers (UNIX has understood 'normal' filenames for ages, if not forever) I would wonder... what other simple, simple things is your Uni getting wrong??

 

[1901gt]

Ouch... seeing as the 8.3 naming convention is for Windows servers (UNIX has understood 'normal' filenames for ages, if not forever) I would wonder... what other simple, simple things is your Uni getting wrong??

Last term we learned Macromedia Director MX 2004 and Lingo programming.