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: Cryx <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 20:58:53 -0500
On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 03:00 PM, Kirk Kerekes wrote:
I knew that someone would leap in to defend the indefensible.
We are not working on a BSD system here, even though one is buried
underneath. We are working on a HFS+ filesystem that explicitly
supports resource forks.
Wrong. You may be using HFS+, but certainly not everyone else is using
it. You are also assuming that OS X systems don't have to unknowingly
interact with foreign and remote filesystems.
And that pretty much ends the discussion. When working inside this
filesystem, it is reasonably to be expected that everyone plays by the
rules of the filesystem, and doesn't just haphazardly throw user data
away without notice.
Yes, the discussion is over -- only if you honestly believe that the
"let's live on our superior island and damn the rest of the inferior
world" has done anything but shrink Apple's market share. In a
hetrogeneous network built on open standards (ie. the Internet, many
offices), you don't know the remote filesystem type. The lowest common
denominator must be supported until the rest of the world catches up.
AppleSingle and AppleDouble are netwide standards for "de-forking"
files with a resource fork, and if Apple were to combine them with file
packages in a transparent, clever way, the whole problem could go away.
Telling everyone but the Mac users to decode/defork documents hasn't and
isn't going to work. Think different -- think compatible. Apple is the
underdog, so it's in no position to force it's proprietary standards on
the market. Instead Apple has to be compatible. That's the harsh
reality that has to be acknowledged for Apple to grow.
Daryn
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