Re: Cocoa stripping resource forks: does Jaguar fix?
Re: Cocoa stripping resource forks: does Jaguar fix?
- Subject: Re: Cocoa stripping resource forks: does Jaguar fix?
- From: Dan Crevier <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 20:37:02 -0700
On 7/1/2002 2:40 PM, "Kirk Kerekes" <email@hidden> wrote:
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If you want an instant demo of this, open Internet Explorer, go to some
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page, and then drag the contents of the address bar to the desktop. This
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creates a ".webloc" location file. You can double-click on it, and IE will
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open to that URL. (Dragging the "@" next to the address bar products a
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different file type, which is also mangled by Cocoa, so take your pick.)
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Now open a TextEdit Rich Text document, and drag the .webloc file to the
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document. TextEdit will happily accept the drag, and show the icon -- but
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it has in the process stripped all the contents out of the file, because IE
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puts the URL in a resource in the resource fork.
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Yeah, yeah. They shouldn't be doing that.
FWIW, this is just a standard clipping file created by the OS based on the
flavors IE provides. IE isn't explicitly adding anything to the resource
fork.
Dan
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