>>Apple could have moved the preferences to plain text XML files back in Mac OS 9.
XML isn't a panacea for file corruption. Heck, it's probably easier to corrupt an XML file if it changes a lot. It's just easier for a sophisticated user to investigate and potentially fix a problem. --bp -----Original Message----- From: Scott Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 3:31 AM To: Mac Internet Explorer Talk Subject: Re: [OT] Re: IE crashes in 10.1 On Friday, October 5, 2001, at 01:53 AM, Harry Zink wrote: > (granted, easy fixes, but I was kinda hoping > that the move to the Unix platform would have eliminated this kind of > problem Actually, moving to a unix-like kernel doesn't end up have any impact on the applications' use of preferences files. Plain text files are more common by convention under unix, but there is nothing about unix itself that either encourages or discourages it. As I'm sure you know, unix doesn't actually have any standards for configuration files. Additionally, apps like IE weren't ported to unix per say, they were ported to Carbon, a subset of Mac OS APIs. Carbon runs on Mach, but that doesn't affect high-level things like preference files. In fact, if they wanted to, Apple could have moved the preferences to plain text XML files back in Mac OS 9. This all may be old news to you, though... > -- particularly since the NeXT advocates have often accused > 'resource forks' to be the cause of such corruptions. Erroneously, I believe. Resource forks are separate. Take it easy, - Scott To unsubscribe send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macie-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> To unsubscribe send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macie-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
