Re: Type/Creator codes
Re: Type/Creator codes
- Subject: Re: Type/Creator codes
- From: Uli Zappe <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 15:20:00 +0200
Am Sonntag, 13. Mai 2001 um 13:32 schrieb Fritz Anderson:
Everyone admits, then, that the merits of
extensions < codes < Nirvana
Certainly not everyone. I, for one, have always found the
Type/Creator issue one of the most annoying features (a bug,
actually) of Classic Mac OS for several reasons:
1. It is downright stupid to assume that because I used app XY to
edit my doc the last time, I will also want to use app XY the next
time. In my workflow, this is more often not the case than it is.
(If I want to go on editing the doc with the same app, I simply
leave it opened in this app till I'm ready...)
2. I have no immediate visual feedback on what to expect when I
double-click a file (or am I supposed to remember for every single
file which app I used it with the last time?). It may be acceptable
if Type and Creator were shown at the end of the file name, just
like an extension, but it's not acceptable without any feedback. (I
really don't understand why Classic Mac users often seem to find a
lack of information "elegant".)
3. The well-known stuff about inter-OS compatibility.
This is a classic example where Classic Mac OS wanted to be smarter
than I am (the very characteristic that made Classic Mac OS mostly
annoying for me), and miserably failed.
Bye
Uli
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