Yep; also, AFAIK, they're dual-forked on 10.4. Interestingly, I also
seem to remember discovering that 10.2's finder could open plist-based
.webloc files, though nothing wrote them out then.
(I, too, wrote a simple webloc reader thingie, though it also handles
resource-fork based ones. A variant of this code is in Camino for our
custom .webloc handling.)
On Mar 9, 2006, at 13:10, Smokey Ardisson wrote:
At 9:12 AM -0500 on 3/9/06, Michael Watson wrote:
.webloc files aren't resource-fork based. I know, 'cause I wrote a
.url->.webloc converter in the shell a while back:
http://bbs.applescript.net/viewtopic.php?pid=52733#p52733
cheers. :-)
Prior to 10.4, they were resource fork-based. I've actually written a
quick-and-dirty converter droplet (based on a tip I saw at
MacOSXHints) to go in the webloc->url direction, for the one time I've
ever wanted to make some of my weblocs accessible to Windows-using
colleagues. Both my webloc2url and url2webloc droplets are here:
<http://www.mindspring.com/~alqahira/Webloc-URL_scripts.zip> (Of
course, Camino handles .url files, so there's little need for the
second unless you just want to banish .url files from your Mac.)
Perhaps that will be useful to the OP--and it will be significantly
easier than getting Apple to rewrite the Finder ;)
Smokey
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