.htm or .html?

What's the difference between using these extensions? (if there is one)

What extension do you use for your websites? I've always used .html, but sometimes I come across sites with .htm and i'm just wondering why!

No difference from my knowledge. .htm one letter shorter?

Did a google search and this brought some light to it:

http://archives.hwg.org/hwg-basics/0...007f@localhost

what an odd url O.o but hey it gives you some information.

No difference to my knowledge either, im pretty sure there is none, as when I read a HTML book it stated you could save it as .html or .htm and it wouldn't make a difference.

The thing I've been confused about though is, when I create a .html and upload it - it changes to a .htm!

hmmmm... spooky

In some older machines/OS's the set length for an extension was 3 characters if I'm not mistaken. It just matters on the old servers, doesn't really matter anymore.

Actually you can even have a php file run as HTML depending on how you configure your servers now.

1. In older--prior to Windows 95--IBM type PC's the file extensions were limited to three letters. .HTML would have been one too many.

Is the reason why. Makes no difference what you use. They're both processed as a HTML page.

Wow thanks schroder, I never knew that, now i can bore people with more usless knowledge.

How2Freelance that was neccessary, it was his first post and most of your posts are not relevant.

How2Freelance, I think you should think before you reply...

No difference.
I've always used .html as my extension