I see the point, did think the same when reaching "npm install" it's like gcc -o a.out something.html
But there are teams dedicated to the "image" of opensource projects, and people that needs to collaborate that ways, creating wordings... like:
> The debugger.html project is hosted on GitHub and uses modern frameworks and toolchains, making it readily available and attractive to a wide audience of...
Of developers.
We as developers, at the end of the day, are humans.
And image branding, helps to projects adoption. Not always and not only. But it helps.
By other comments, that ".html" sounds like those ".io" or ".me" domains... a way of bring an ip response to you in 2016.
Javascript and CSS, is the 90% codebase intention of those HTML browsers that we use. (And binary size).
It could have been worse... usually we need a .html to load many .js (and moar stufz)... hey, it's related.
They could have call it an unrelated extension like .ninja or more confusing, related to computing, but unrelated to html/js, something like SOMETH~1.TXT
But there are teams dedicated to the "image" of opensource projects, and people that needs to collaborate that ways, creating wordings... like:
> The debugger.html project is hosted on GitHub and uses modern frameworks and toolchains, making it readily available and attractive to a wide audience of...
Of developers.
We as developers, at the end of the day, are humans.
And image branding, helps to projects adoption. Not always and not only. But it helps.
By other comments, that ".html" sounds like those ".io" or ".me" domains... a way of bring an ip response to you in 2016.
Javascript and CSS, is the 90% codebase intention of those HTML browsers that we use. (And binary size).
It could have been worse... usually we need a .html to load many .js (and moar stufz)... hey, it's related.
They could have call it an unrelated extension like .ninja or more confusing, related to computing, but unrelated to html/js, something like SOMETH~1.TXT
You never know :)