On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Todd Heberlein <todd_heberl...@mac.com>wrote:

> Some may find the following Apple Insider article on the the topic useful:
>
> Inside Snow Leopard's UTI: Apple fixes the Creator Code
>
> http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/09/22/inside_snow_leopards_uti_apple_fixes_the_creator_code.html
>

Some may also find it misleading, since it implies that the UTI can be set
on a per-file basis, independent of type code and extension.  This is false.

As a result, most of their conclusions are incorrect as well.  If you can't
set the UTI differently on two files with the same type code and extension,
it can't serve as a creator code.

Incidentally, this is not a complaint against UTIs; they are very useful.
 They're just not meant to solve the creator code problem.

-BJ Homer
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