On Sep 6, 2009, at 1:50 AM, Mark Munz wrote:
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Matt Neuburg<[email protected]> wrote:
Yeah, that's just FUD. It supports creator codes, but not in the
same *way*
that Leopard did. And since this is a major undocumented change,
which has
broken the way apps like BBEdit and Nisus (and I guess some Adobe
apps)
work, I'm hoping to get some official word on what's going on. m.
Sorry Matt.. it's broken. And it's not just BBEdit, Nisus & Adobe,
it's every app that makes use of creator codes. It's a major problem
for any app dealing with generic types like .txt, .rtf, .html, .png,
.jpg or anything where the app the creates it is not the default app
to open the given filetype. Snow Leopard appears to ignore the creator
code and launch the default app, making creator codes useless.
AFAICT, Snow Leopard's behavior re creator codes has not been
consistent. It originally consulted creator codes when a file has no
extension, but starting with build 10A394 it ignores them always.
(That's my observation, anyway.) I filed a bug report and got the
response "Engineering has determined that this issue behaves as
intended." So I don't think you can say that 10.6 is broken, it's just
not yet documented. What's broken is the expectation of users who've
had 20 years to get used to the old (superior, IMHO, but many
disagree) behavior.
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