On Apr 7, 2004, at 01:03 am, Tom W. wrote:
People at work, including our production department, and our IT department,
are telling me it's bad to launch an application via clicking on an
associated document, unless the application is already open.
To me, this is like asking me not to use one hand. It's one of the things
that drew me to the mac.
Has anyone else heard anything about this being a bad thing to do? My mac at
work has been crashing, and they have been thinking this could be a reason
why. It sounds strange to me. If it's bad, why include the ability to do
that?
This sounds very much to me like some lame Windows-ite tech giving you a pile of crap because he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about, trying to explain why a computer he doesn't understand is crashing in a way he doesn't understand.
It *is* probably good policy to avoid doing it for files you don't trust, especially in Windows, but on normal documents you have saved yourself then I see no issue. If your company is paranoid about viruses getting as far as your computer's document folders I recommend strongly they invest in improving their anti-virus mechanisms.
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