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: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 03:58:14 -0400
On Saturday, September 8, 2001, at 03:01 AM, John C. Randolph wrote:
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.
Ideally this wouldn't be limited to just images.. but to ANYTHING
that could be converted from A to B.
Not that this is particularly straightforward in many cases
(including even in this simple case for example .jpeg to .gif
[dithering, image palette etc])
Remembering the possibilities of the old FilterServices, and the
Anderson Financial file format filters.. sigh..