Re: PHP-Yes, HTML-No --- Why?

d wrote:
If you're selling your company, or indeed a product, to people who know,
People who know and people who care are two entirely different worlds. 
When they pay your bills, they are exactly the same :)
It's irrelevant if they are paying your bills or not. The sets of people who know and people who care are still distinct. I doubt that a single person has ever been fired, not paid or told to change the URLs in he web design because they ended in .php.
then things like this speak very highly of the attention you pay to your work.
Yeah it's says your a pinhead, hellbent on spending many resources for foolish consistencies.
"many resources" is a bit far-fetched.  Saving documents as ..html instead of .php is not "many resources".
Gosh you still don't seem to grasp the issues here...
It's like making a great watch, then using bits of old band-aids for a strap.
Hardly. It's more like making a great watch and then adorning it on the inside where nobody can really see it.
No, as people do see URLs.  That's the essence of a website.
My god how moronic can a person be! The essence of a website is the part below the URL not the URL.
People use them for marketing, put them on advers, print them on t-shirts, use them for tracking, etc.
If you were really concerned about this, wouldn't the best solution be to remove 'extensions' from URLs entirely? If you want to relieve the user of this 'burden', then hiding the mechanics should be the ultimate goal.
site engine, which does indeed do away with extensions altogether.
Where might that be?
umm on the web server?  Where do you think?  Under the kitchen sink? :)
Now you're being obtuse. Why to I get the sinking feeling that I'm wrestling a pig in the mud....
But once you have code great HTML, great CSS, great PHP, and you server is quick, smooth and working well, it doesn't make sense to just stop making your site better.
You've neglected to define what "better" is. All you've said is that the URLs should end in .html. I've never heard a single person say to me "Yeah great site! But their URLs don't end in .html so I'm never going back" and I don't think you have every heard that either!
Better = as you want it. 
Sounds to me that what you really meant is "better = as 'd' wants it". We (the other 99.9%) want it as .php. Ergo our web sites are already "better".
Making concessions on presentation due to perceived limitations of your setup is not "better".
There ya have it. We want .php (YOU want .html but nobody else does). Ergo there is no concession on presentation at all and our web sites are already "better". Case closed, argument done (Next idiot!).
I won't stop until my site is as perfect as possible.
A sure sign of a neurotic person!
Or someone bidding for a contract.  Arguably they are the same ;)
Right... Hope you got your meds....
I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
The above, from one of my randomly selected sigs, is another example of a neurotic person. You should like him - he's Steve Wright. Bet he insists on .html too! :-)
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