On Apr 04, 2007, at 23:08 UTC, Arnaud Nicolet wrote:

> > If you want to let your user pick their own extension, then you
> > simply supply a suggested file name with none.
> 
> Then your user doesn't know the "default" extension, if there's any.

Right.  Apple thinks that if there's any extension that's appropriate
at all, then the user should not have any choice in the matter.

Personally, I think keeping file metadata in the file name was a bad
idea from the start, and Apple had it right from 1984 until OS X
appeared.  But, alas, they didn't ask me (and didn't listen to me or
the droves of other engineers who told them so when OS X came out).

Best,
- Joe

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