Posted by d on 01/25/06 21:59

"Geoff Berrow" <blthecat@ckdog.co.uk> wrote in message
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>>I mean as in you are showing the world what technology you're using :)
>
> Smiley noted but it doesn't seem to bother people using other
> technologies, why does it seem to bother people who use PHP?

If I were to develop in ASP, I would have .html as well. The reason we
don't use .html is simply because that's how web servers determine which
pages need parsing. I don't like that, as the files, when downloaded, are
straight HTML. Having to change the clean nature of HTML files because of
perceived limitations in technology is not nice, in my eyes. That's why I
want my files that contain HTML to be called .html when the user gets them
:)

> Open source stigma? Yeah, that's it. PHP is free so it can't be any
> good, people who use it are just amateurs, yadda, yadda...

That's not it at all - I see no stigma at all about open source :) As a
professional open-source developer, that would be a rather career-limiting
move ;)

> I think the only way to overcome that is for more people to use the .php
> extension, not less.

I don't think there is a stigma, at least not amongst people people who know
what they're doing :)

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