At 8:03 PM -0400 4/6/04, 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 is a Window's recommendation caused by virus'. (Just a side comment, but if you tech department is recommending this, then they need to get their heads out of their ...'. This is a 'don't do this because it might launch a virus' recommendation because the tech department is too lazy or under-funded to properly install anti virus software.) For Macintosh computers, if you get a crash opening an application by opening the document, I would try rebuilding your desktop (in classic OS).
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