On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:40:25AM +0000, Matthew King wrote: [...] > Then why does it still have that ugly, 100% fail save dialogue?
WFM. You might need to learn how to use it more effectively. > Somebody went to all the trouble of writing drag-icon-to-save > functionality and thought it best to hide it where nobody would think to > look rather than integrate it into the standard save dialogue possibly > with the option to turn the old shit one off. Because for some strange reason, Apple chose to do something non-confusing for the 99.99% of people who have used Windows, classic MacOS and X11 rather than support the 0.01% of fanboys for a quaint British platform that was so expensive - in 2009 money, something like GBP2-3k - that few would choose to buy one even if they'd heard of it in the first place. > Also, what happens if you try and use this functionality and drag the icon > into an application which isn't finder? That depends on whether the application can actually handle that type of file. It *should* work, but there are all sorts of hateful edge cases that you can trigger if you try hard enough.
