Re: Saving an AudioFile without an extension
Re: Saving an AudioFile without an extension
- Subject: Re: Saving an AudioFile without an extension
- From: m <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 09:37:23 -0700
On Jul 5, 2004, at 7:13 AM, Richard Dobson wrote:
Far be from me to presume to challenge the status quo, but why do
people think that somehow offering the user the extended choice of
filename paradigm is so problematic?
You were the one who thought extension-less file names were a problem.
These would seem to be the choices for loading:
[snip]
And for saving:
Type/Creator plus hidden format extension
Type/Creator plus visible format extension
Type/Creator no format extension (for backwards compatibility: the
only pattern deprecated in the guidelines)
Ok, so you've now convinced yourself that you need a way to save a file
without extensions while preserving the OSes ability to know the type
of file.
And it is the not so subtle hostility to file extensions that
surprises me, even though they do not threaten the established
hegemony of Type/Creator in any way. Is it perhaps more of a "moral"
issue than a mere technical one? Do format extensions not sit well
with "thinking differently"?
Heh heh, you're just a little late to this party! See
<
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/01q3/metadata/metadata-1.html>
My own feeling is that when properly implemented, meta data is indeed a
superior way (from a usability standpoint) to track file types. But we
are where we are. Given the relatively small installed base of Mac
users, and the need to interoperate with systems that are already out
there, an extension based way to specify file types is a necessary
concession to reality. But as you note, in the interests of backwards
compatibility with Mac OS 9, meta data needs to be supported.
_murat
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