Ah, neat info to have. I hadn't bothered peeking inside .webloc files
before I saw the MacScripter thread to which I posted the converter,
so I didn't know they were previously dual-forked. (Though I
should've suspected it, I suppose.)
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m-s
On Mar 10, 2006, at 17:56, Wevah wrote:
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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