(Websites) which technology

Spyhop · 10 Feb 2010 at 12:52

I know - just seems odd to fake .stm

Dj_Jestar · 10 Feb 2010 at 13:14

Not at all. It's a layer of obfuscation, granted that's not security, but it's certainly an extra layer to overcome.

But it's really because some browsers (on older mobile devices) are dependent on the extensions of pages, basically some will refuse to render something unless it is of a certain extension.

Izi · 10 Feb 2010 at 18:32

Longbow said:
Output to server? You mean output to client? And of course, HTML/CSS is a client side language, even with PHP it will output the client side language and not the PHP.

Well if the old page were all static HTML files or even just an older CMS, it would mean manually editing them all to add in the new CMS code.

no, it would mean editing the main templates and the content would then fit to match the new template.

if you think about an article its just text, title, content, images. It would be quite easy with a traditional CMS to update all old articles to a new design using a traditional CMS. I am doing a news website right now for a large publishing company doing exactly this.

Izi · 10 Feb 2010 at 18:35

Longbow said:
Output to server? You mean output to client? And of course, HTML/CSS is a client side language, even with PHP it will output the client side language and not the PHP.

Well if the old page were all static HTML files or even just an older CMS, it would mean manually editing them all to add in the new CMS code.

no I dont mean that.

I don't know that I am correct about this, but this is what I think.

BBC have a team of developers. They use a CMS to create HTML pages. These are then output to the server and the html pages are then served to the client.