Re: Type/Creator codes
Re: Type/Creator codes
- Subject: Re: Type/Creator codes
- From: Uli Zappe <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 15:30:52 +0200
Am Sonntag, 13. Mai 2001 um 02:56 schrieb Ali Ozer:
Of course one downside of file extensions is the fact that they are in
the user's face
Why would this be a "downside"? Isn't it nice to be informed about
what will happen if you double-click a file in advance?
The only way to provide this information while hiding the extension
in the Finder would be that the Finder always displays an icon with
the same information (so that in effect you have a "graphic"
extension). This would mean that you have a visually clearly
discernible icon for "every" possible extension in the world. This
is clearly impossible, but maybe you can fall back in such cases on
a "generic" doc icon that has the unknown extension written in it
(though it will be hard to make this readable for the very small
icons in List View and Browser View). Then the problem still
remains how to tell extensions from files without an extension, but
a dot in their name...
Bye
Uli
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