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Congratulations!

Thanks :)

I just want to be sure that all the work I've done, including my bookmarks for webprog-1-a have been seen. I am missing grades for work that I've done in 1-a and 1-b...I'm sure it's hard to keep track of everything. Thank You!

Matt, I try to check every day, but sometimes I go a couple of days without. If I'm still missing something of your, and it shows up in your collected bookmarks, let me know and I'll do a quick audit, making sure all your bookmarks (assuming they meet the standards of the challenge) show up in the gradebook.

Who ultimately decides what new coding practices are? Do they have pow-wows every X amount of years to discuss the evolution of code? How long before they become mainstream and accepted by all browsers and designers/programmers alike?

It's complicated. W3C is considered the standards issueing group, and yes, they pretty much continually talk about what needs to happen in the next standard. In that, it's a bit like the video standards, with the MPEG group deciding what should be included as part of an MPEG-2 or MPEG-6 standard. However, it's also the case that there is a bit more variability in how well browsers follow that standard. As the book suggests, it's much better today than it was a few years back, when you would have effectively had to design different sites for each browser. There are still some oddities in Internet Explorer that you will likely have to design hacks for, but it's not like it used to be.

What's the difference between naming an HTML file with .html or .htm? Both work, right?

HTML is the "correct" choice, though .htm will also work. The latter is a result of limitations of the early DOS & Windows systems, which could only handle 3 letter extensions (and 8 letter filenames). Why is it still used today? Microsoft continues to push it as a feature, not a bug, and those using MS servers or ASP are more likely to use it, unless, of course, it is a .asp page. But the standard usage is still .html.