Dennis huh? Hmmm.......and whom was talking about reading comprehension?
"Apple is buying itself the same kind of problem here that Microsoft
had with early implementations of the System Registry"
Not sure how you can make the quantum leap from Apple compressing
files to Windows Registry.....that is all it is. Why would this be a
problem? It isn't. There is a simple util to convert the file to non-
binary format, and then back. So, not sure where this would be
anything like the mess Windows has with the system Registry. So I fail
to see the comparison.
I guess I don't have the comprehension skills you
have.......Fred........
On Sep 4, 2009, at 8:10 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 4 Sep 2009 at 19:52, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
On Sep 4, 2009, at 7:41 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
In regard to our recent discussion of the old "delete your
preferences file" troubleshooting trick for Finale users on Mac, I
was just reading Ars Technica's fascinating review of Snow Leopard
and came across this:
Images are PNGs or JPEGs, audio is AAC, video is MPEG-4, even
preference files and other property lists now default to a compact
binary format rather than XML.
- http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars/3
I wonder if this is a good or bad thing? I'm partial to plain-text
files for storing this kind of thing (as with INI files on Windows),
and worry that Apple is buying itself the same kind of problem here
that Microsoft had with early implementations of the System Registry
(which predated Win95, BTW -- it was there in Win3.x if you had a
version of MS Office installed).
You must be joking right? Apple is certainly not heading towards a
system registry like Windows.
Um, just exactly where did I suggest that? What I cited was an
example of Apple moving to a BINARY format for storing preferences. I
compared this to plain-text files and the Windows System Registry
(which is binary), and said that plain-text files (like the former
XML format for Mac preferences) are my preference.
Nowhere do I come close to suggesting that "Apple is...heading
towards a system registry."
Work on your reading comprehension, Dennis.
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David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com
David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/
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