On Dec 27, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > On Dec 27, 2011, at 8:57 AM, Robert Monaghan <b...@gluetools.com> wrote: > >> Wow, I wake up one morning, and the definition of Megabytes change. >> Did anyone explain this to the computers? The last time I checked, they >> still used binary.. ;) > > In which case Mega- was never an appropriate prefix, since SI prefixes are > defined by powers of 10. > > As the knowledge base article states, Mac OS X switched to base-10 file sizes > in Mac OS X 10.6 to reduce confusion and inconsistency with manufacturers’ > stated capacities. If your application runs on both 10.5 and 10.6/10.7, you > should probably query the OS version and choose the appropriate conversion > factor.
Or you can just use MiB instead of MB, which is what I do. With the regular prefixes varying between decimal and binary depending on which app you’re running, it’s the only way to display a file size and making it clear what you mean without the user having to do the math him/herself. Charles _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
