.html vs .htm

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[bumpaw]

I am pretty sure this is something I knew at one time, but is there a best choice here. At some point we decided to use .html all the time, but now we are involved with working on a project where some files are allready done with .htm. He had one .html just to make it chalenging.:)

[tedster]

IMO there is no best choice - just consistency to make life a bit easier (but you already experienced that).

I've got similar challenges with a bunch of legacy material that has no consistent use of extensions. What a mess!

[uncle_bob]

I'd agree with tedster, you need to be consistent. I always tell the developers all html pages must use lowercase urls (including directories and filenames) and all must end in .html

We had no end of problems when we moved from a windows server to a linux server as the windows server didn't care what case the url or filename was, but linux started returning 404 errors for pages we new were there, but had a capital letter in them giving a mismatch between the url and the filename