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 01:48:51 -0700
On Saturday, September 8, 2001, at 12:58 AM, Scott Anguish wrote:
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.
Well, yeah. I'm thinking it could appear in the rightmost column of the
browser in both the finder and the open/save sheets. Popup list of how
you could get the contents, right underneath the preview.
Not that this is particularly straightforward in many cases
(including even in this simple case for example .jpeg to .gif
[dithering, image palette etc])
In that case, you can of course warn the user about that, just like when
you warn about converting from rich to plain text.
Remembering the possibilities of the old FilterServices, and the
Anderson Financial file format filters.. sigh..
Yep. When Mac OS reaches parity with NeXTSTEP, it's still a long way
from the ultimate user environment.
Something else that would be REALLY nice, is in the standard save sheet,
if you tried to save a file whose name conflicted with an existing file,
your options wouldn't just be to save or cancel, but you could also view
the existing file and/or compare the two in filemerge.
-jcr
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