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: "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 00:01:01 -0700
On Friday, September 7, 2001, at 02:13 PM, Ali Ozer wrote:
What will happen if a directory contains two files that differ only by
extension and extensions are hidden ? I don't recall the paper
mentioning
that scenario. myFile.jpeg and myFile.tiff in the same directory.
There are good reasons to disallow, and maybe even some reasons to allow
this; but in 10.1 this situation is not prevented by Finder, Save panel,
or Nav services. (This could change in a future update.)
Actually, for the particular case of an image file, I'd like the finder
to provide some kind of magic morphing alias, such that if I have
image.tiff in some directory, I can navigate to
./image/image.[gif|png|jpeg|rif|etc] , which would be created on demand.
Andy Stone's image drag wells in Create! are wonderful, and I'd like to
see that kind of thing done pervasively where filter services allow it.
-jcr
"The problem with trying to child-proof the world, is that it makes
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