I'm ambivalent about making a reference to CGI.pm, since the script is so short and sweet. But I guess I will anyway. Handcoding HTML into scripts is a bad habit. And in this case, using CGI allows you to make program logic clearer. Plus, you can generate well-formed HTML with about half the typing, and a lot less worries about it breaking.

Update

Apparently I'm getting downvotes for a reasonable suggestion. Here is an example of how much cleaner the code looks when you use CGI to save a static HTML file: 

use CGI qw(:standard);

open (FILE, ">test.html") or die "cannot open test.html: $!\n";

print FILE (
    start_html( -title => "test page" ),
    p( "Test paragraph." ),
    p( "Here is a second paragraph." ),
    hr(),
    p( "This is the last." ),
    end_html()
);

close FILE;

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PS. The <center> tag has been deprecated for three years.

In reply to Re: MSIE Favorite Start Page by ichimunki
in thread MSIE Favorite Start Page by Adam

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