>
> have your cake and eat it to.
>
> form 3 w/ a symbolic link from foo.htmld/foo.html to foo.htmld/index.html.
>
I agree that this is definately the way to go, however, I'd argue that it is better to use form 1 (or ANY word index,default that is consistent across directories) as the standard, and then if you want to support the same name as folder form 3, then make that link..
I'm arguing for this only form only because form 1 is supported by servers as a default, and form 3 isn't...
Begin forwarded message:
From: Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 95 14:07:06 -0500
To: webstep@mail.xent.caltech.edu
Subject: What's in a .htmld or .htmd?
Reply-To: sanguish@digifix.com
References: <9501261825.AA16331@femail.NeXT.COM>
Dan Grillo wrote
> What should be in a .htm[l]d? Right know I know of 3 forms.
>
> 1. foo.htmld/index.html
> 2. foo.htmld/TXT.html
> 3. foo.htmld/foo.html
>
> I think forms 1 & 3 are useful.
>
> Pages, StepWise, and NeXTanswers all currently serve files saved as .htmld
>
> Right now NeXTanswers uses form #3, so the internal .html can be FTP'ed
> or saved from a web browser and used on it's own. This is hard to
> do if they all are index.html.
>
Unfortunately, #3 is not something that most web servers can be set to use as the default page for a directory... that's the reason I use index.html, so I can take advantage of the web server's ability to display a default page, instead of a directory listing..
Not all of us have written our own servers Dan... :-)