What is the difference between .htm and .html?

[whloo]

i was looking at some article and it was telling me that .htm is better because it load faster. can anyone explain why?

 

[Tarwn]

er...how old was the article?

I remember hearing something like this back in the mid-nineties due to the whole naming convention thing. Some webservers were set up to look for index files by one of the extensions over the other and some systems handled 3 letter extensions better than others...but I don't really remember this being listed as an issue then and would doubt it would have become an issue since...

Do you have a reference to the article? It's entirely possible that I am in completely in the dark on this issue.

-Tarwn

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[gwar2k1]

There is no difference besides the extra letter. Way back in the day when systems could only read 3 letter extentions, htm was all that was possible. the name convention allowed html which seems more appropriate.

Servers search for index pages they are set up to search for. if you list .htm, .html, .php, .shtml it will look for these pages. There is no difference in performance, they are parsed the same.

If youre looking for a "better" extention, use html. ppl are more used to that