Alex Rice wrote: > On Jan 5, 2004, at 2:26 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> With OS X Apple no longer requires file type assignments, posing a >> problem >> for us. I'm not sure Apple has yet decided what to do about either >> file >> types or creator codes for the long term, so I'm not familiar with a >> workaround for selecting files that rely only on file name extension >> on OS >> X. > > OS X supports creator codes, filename extensions, and MIME types. Apps > are free to use any, or all of them. From what I understand this is > just the way it will be, not that apple is undecided. > > See bugzilla #605. It's a Rev bug that it's not implemented correctly- > this aspect of OS X has been unchanged since 10.0 AFAIK. > >> Anyone come across a current Apple tech note on this? > > Not sure if it's "current". > <http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn2017.html>
Cool, thanks. Reading Tuv's note it looks like Apple has come around on this one at last. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge: Publish any database on any Web site ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
