grayrest wrote: > Amun-Latch wrote: >> When I look at the properties of the picture, it says that it is >> "Mozilla Joint Photographic Experts >> Group Image File." I don't want it that type, I want it a plain old >> jpeg. > > a "plain old jpeg" is a Joint Photographic Experts Group Image File > (it's an acronym), you've just associated it with netscape.
This leads me to one of my pet peeves... software companies that redefine the names of standard, nonproprietary file formats to include the company or software product name in them, when displayed in the Windows Explorer or various other places where the associated file type for a file extension or MIME type is shown. Two of the worst offenders in that are Microsoft and Netscape, but other software does it too. I keep changing that stuff back by hand, but it always reverts when I install a new version of a program that uses the file types. Darn it, I want HTML files to be referred to as HTML, or HyperText Markup Language, or Web documents, not "Netscape Hypertext Document" or "Microsoft Internet Explorer Document" or "Mozilla Hypertext Document" or anything else tied to a particular vendor's product. Similarly, I cringe at Microsoft deciding to define comma-separated data files, in plain ASCII format, as "Microsoft Excel CSV Data"... maybe sometimes I might want to open them in Excel, but often I'll just open them in a text editor or process them with a Perl script of my own devising... it's not in any way a Microsoft-specific format. -- == Dan == Dan's Web Tips: http://www.dantobias.com/webtips/ Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dantobias.com/
