Re: Mac OS X 10.1 File Name Extension Guidelines
Re: Mac OS X 10.1 File Name Extension Guidelines
- Subject: Re: Mac OS X 10.1 File Name Extension Guidelines
- From: Richard Schreyer <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 13:03:59 -0700
Well, I guess I'll be the first to comment on this.
Overall, these rules make sense. Especially the part about ensuring
that an extension would never be hidden if that would make the file
appear to be a different type. It looks like it will work, on one
condition:
That file extensions exist for compatibility with other platforms only,
and that Mac OS X does not use the filename extension in determining
what kind of file it is. Of course, right now it appears that this is
sadly not the case.
Even just setting type/creators on a per-user basis would be good
enough. Obviously, the HFS space reserved for types/creators couldn't
be used for per-user settings, but I really don't care where it is
actually put, as long as it is put somewhere.
Are type/creators set per-user in 10.1, or if not, do we have any hope
of a filetyping system that does not require the existence of filename
extensions in the future?
Personally, I would love to see the hierarchical system that some have
talked about here: image/jpeg/com.apple.Preview,
text/html/com.barebones.BBEdit
In the meantime, I guess I had better start looking at what changes to
my code this will require.
Richard Schreyer