Subject: Re: Patch: XHTML importer .htm files
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Sat May 19 2001 - 13:43:40 CDT
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:27:54AM +1000, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> Sam TH wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:17:53AM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 01:26:44PM -0500, Sam TH wrote:
> > > > > Why should it?
> > > >
> > > > Since some documents have a .htm extension? Why shouldn't it?
> > >
> > > Besides, I am strongly of the opinion that any file operations should
> > > be filename-neutral.
> >
> > Well, first it tries to recognize contents, but if that fails, would
> > you rather it just gave up?
>
> We actually check the filename before the contents but I definitely
> agree we should check the contents first:
>
That should definitely be changed. Especially since we've seen how
many people suggest calling anything MS Word will accept a .doc.
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