Re: [cobalt-users] Re: user default page shows username@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

["BT" <error404@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>    Much as I love to beat up on Sun/Cobalt, in this case, Microsoft is the
> culprit and Cobalt is COMPLETELY correct. ".html" has always been _the_
> standard on the Internet (stands for "HyperText Markup Language") used by
> both Un*x machines and Macintosh-generated web pages, until people started
> using MS applications to create pages once Bill Gates discovered the Net
> wasn't just a fad. Since Win3.1 was still in wide use, and even Win32 uses
> _only_ three-character extensions to link documents to applications, MS
> defined the ".htm" and continues it to this day - those kids in Redmond
never
> could admit to making a mistake. ("HyperText Markup" makes no sense as an
> abbreviation.)

<sigh>

the .htm file extension is a holdover from the DOS 8.3 filename convention
and is basically 16 bit.... whereas .html is 32 bit cos *nix was 32 bit long
before MS unconnected standalone boxes required the extra address space...

you could just as easily use .wxy as a file extension for web pages
(provided everyone else did too) and it would still be 16 bit, and .wxyz
would still be 32 bit..... and I had a mac that would only use 8.3
filenames....eg .htm

I presume, being a hero of
anti-everything-even-remotely-associated-with-non-unix-standards you name
all your photographic images embedded in webpages as image.jpeg as opposed
to image.jpg, but I do wonder what you do with .gif / .css / .php / etc
which are after all, horrible TLA and besides the REAL point which you
completely missed, 16 bit (extension) names...

sticking to A-Z + 0-9 and case insensitive one could forgive MS, or indeed
anyone else, for assuming 46,656 different filetypes would be enough for
anyone....