- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 00:36:29 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Brian Sexton <discussion-w3c@ididnotoptin.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Brian Sexton wrote: > > I can see that those file names all conform to section 3.7 of the > "CSS2.1 Test Case Authoring Guidelines" [1], but does anyone know why > the extensions are all ancient Microsoft-style--three characters long > (e.g. ".htm")--when even Microsoft operating systems and browsers have > supported longer extensions (e.g. ".html") for many years? Old Mac OSes were limited to 31 characters per filename, so every character counts! That was the reasoning, anyway. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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