Re: Type/Creator codes
Re: Type/Creator codes
- Subject: Re: Type/Creator codes
- From: Jean-Denis Muys-Vasovic <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 00:14:49 +0200
Uli,
You are probably not typical in this respect. I would argue that in
most cases, people typically want to open on Tuesday the document "in
progress" with the same app as on Monday.
A very thorough discussion about that topic has been going on on
Macintouch. The start of it is at URL
http://www.macintouch.com/mosxreaderreports12.html. This is a general
discussion about MacOS X, but you can search for "extensions" to
focus only on that topic.
This discussion is at the user level (power user maybe), not
developer. There are arguments for and against, some very
thoughtfully articulated. But on average, it seems that a majority of
Mac users have developped patterns of use which take advantage of
type/creators. Those patterns are different from those developped by
people who grew up in a Unix or Windows world.
In order to form an opinion, I would suggest that we keep our minds
open to the fact that not all people adopt the same patterns of life,
and that we go and read that discussion.
I did, and my opinion at this point in time, is that type/creators
are genuinely useful, in a way that file extensions alone cannot
replace.
Waiting for nirvana...
Jean-Denis
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 15:20:00 +0200
From: Uli Zappe <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Type/Creator codes
Cc: email@hidden
To: Fritz Anderson <email@hidden>
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...)
Bye
Uli