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Re: Mac OS X 10.1 File Name Extension Guidelines
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Re: Mac OS X 10.1 File Name Extension Guidelines


  • Subject: Re: Mac OS X 10.1 File Name Extension Guidelines
  • From: Rosyna <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 19:52:41 -0700

Don't want this to become a huge rant.

Exactly why extensions are no good. When you run IE (everytime) it switches .html extension to be opened with IE. if it had a creator code, IE could not do this. Same goes for .txt files. Genius AIM programmers decided all .txt files should open in AIM.

And BOTH creator code and extensions can be overridden by the finder in OS X.

Ack, at 9/13/01, Piers Uso Walter said:

You're only talking about yourself. What about others who may want to open these files?

The most obvious problem of the current creator code based application binding policy is that it almost never does what you want when you work on somebody else's files, e.g. file that you receive via email or files in a different user account that you want to open.

I don't want any text files to open up in SimpleText or BBEdit, just because they may have been created with those tools (I'd prefer to use TextEdit).

I don't want PDF files to open up in my Acrobat Reader, just because they may have been distilled by Acrobat (I'd prefer to use Preview).

And most certainly I do not want any HTML file to launch my Internet Explorer, just because its creator type says so (I'd prefer to use OmniWeb).

All of this happens to me *daily*, though, which is so annoying that I can't even begin to describe it. This ill-conceived behavior prevents me from using a simple double-click to open files, forcing me to always drag the files to the application that I want to use, which again forces me to keep all of these apps in the dock, for the slight chance that I may have to drag a file to them. This really is the opposite of intuitive and user-friendly.

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Sincerely,
Rosyna Keller
Technical Support/Holy Knight/Always needs a hug

Unsanity: Unsane Tools for Insane People


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