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On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Bah. This is exactly the same hate as it was when Apple used to store > important metadata in their special little eight bytes somewhere other > than the filename. While I won't disagree with the technical truth of that, the previous system had a kind of bias towards doing what you wanted and expected (i.e., if it doesn't seem to work, try a few other things out). I know that systems relying on file extensions generally have a bias against helping the user out, and I was afraid that Apple would acquire that bias. Unfortunately, at least some of their apps seem to have. > At least you can /change/ the filename without having to find and > install some sort of magic file blessing tool to alter those bytes into > making your application identify them. > > Painful and stupid: not actually considering file content when you look > to opening, or not opening, a file. Yeah, this is the real problem. > Painful and stupid: the idea that there is one, and only one, thing that > is solely responsible for a file, and nothing should be able to change > that. The previous system was pretty good when it was developed, but it was retained far too long. > Not that any platform is substantially better at this. BeOS's system was pretty sweet, and I just don't understand why people haven't stolen it, or at least something like it. Dammit. -- We either are networking, or we areNT networking... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.comThere's stuff above here
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