Am 26.04.2006 um 10:06 schrieb Michael J. Hußmann:
If you wrote an HTML editor, how could you possibly know in advance what file extensions will be used?
And so every way to show only a specific extension should be forbidden? Let's see, what the mothership says:
"Some Macintosh software developers react to filename extensions with dismay. As a means for specifying document type and ownership, extensions seem primitive compared to the type and creator codes and the other rich metadata made possible by the multifork HFS and HFS+ volume formats. However, in the Internet age, documents frequently travel around a heterogeneous network. A document may move from a Macintosh to a Linux network server to a Windows computer. Each computer on this path may have a different notion of what constitutes a document type. Many computer systems define document types solely by well-known filename extensions (such as .jpg, .mp3, and .html). These systems might not know what to do with a file that has no extension and may treat it as an unknown type. Other systems also have little or no knowledge of the HFS+ file system and the metadata it stores. When transferring files, they might strip out this metadata so that it is irretrievably lost."
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