Date   : Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:33:55 +0000
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: Grammar

A.J. Davis wrote:
> Andy Armstrong wrote:
> 
>> I don't think there's anything traditional about missing the end of  
>> the extension. It's a brain dead Windows affectation.
>>
> 
> It just seems a bit anal to blame Windows (yet again).  It's only one 
> letter FFS.  We already have ASP, CGI, PHP, CSS, JPS, SWF in web design.

... all of which are natural TLA's though. 'HTML' isn't, and with a limit on 3 
letter extensions in Windows disappearing over ten years ago, you'd think the 
users would have caught up by now :-)  (Actually, I don't really remember any 
MS-based web coding going on at all in the FAT filesystem days, so I'm not 
sure why there was ever a reason to start using htm rather than html)

On the '.jpeg' rather than '.jpg' front, I think the four letter version was 
popular on at least one UNIX platform (probably SGI; I definitely remember 
'.mpeg' being the norm there).

Of course no extension at all is technically valid on UNIX platforms as their 
apps *should* be capable of sussing things out from file contents if needs be, 
  but it's probably not supported in a lot of cases these days.

Am I OT yet? ;)

cheers

Jules