When I save a JPEG file in an image editing app, and later open it, I
expect it to open in Preview (or whatever my default image viewer is),
not the image editing app. This is especially true if someone else
opens the image.
Of course the expected behavior may depend on whether I am opening the
document with intent to view or edit; but since most uses of documents
over time tend to be to view, using the user's default viewing app is
a more reasonable default.
As I mentioned, users can override this if they wish for individual
documents, through Finder.
In general most apps these days do not set the creator code on
documents.
Ali
On Apr 3, 2008, at 4:08 PM, Scott Ribe wrote:
But having an app explicitly
and automatically mark documents it saves as opening in itself can
get
frustrating for the user.
How so? It seems the most reasonable default. I really don't see end
users
saving a file from one app, and expecting it to automatically open
with a
different app. In fact, that seems like it would be rather surprising
behavior.
Unless you are referring to the case where an app opens an existing
file,
then on save changes the existing creator code--IMO that would be
ill-behaved.
--
Scott Ribe
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