- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 10:39:41 -0700
- To: <www-html@w3.org>
At 12:15p -0700 09/23/99, Larry Masinter wrote: >Note that there's a newer version available as > ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/masinter/draft-connolly-text-html-02.txt > >I'm making updates as I get comments. > File extension: > > The file extensions 'htm' or 'html' are commonly used, but Let's put 'html' first -- we don't want to glorify DOS. :) (BTW, for Windows users: there is a MSKB article explaining how to override the "helpful" filename.html-->filename.html.txt coercion in SaveAs dialogs. See <http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q131/1/61.asp>.) > other extensions denoting file formats for preprocessing are > also common. > > Macintosh File Type code: HTML I thought all text/* media types were supposed to be given type "TEXT"? 99.9% of all HTML documents on Mac users' hard drives have the file type "TEXT". What's the point of changing it now? I think this must have been a mistake on someone's part. There are other ways to indicate subtype (file extension [.html], creator code [MOSS,MSIE,...]). -Walter file format phreak, resedit geek, likes to peek
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