Proposal for metadata interoperability on OS X

2008-07-08 Thread ab_lists
A lot of discussion on different application user forums seem to be going on regarding the exchange of metadata between different applications. Apple has provided parts of a possible solution in the latest versions of Mac OS X but nothing that can be seen as the final verdict. First some

Re: Proposal for metadata interoperability on OS X

2008-07-08 Thread ab_lists
I'm following up on my own post because I received two comments that made me realise I should clarify why I want this discussion here on this list. 1. You should file a bug report with Apple. This is the intention (and I know that at least one person has filed a request already), but I

Re: Proposal for metadata interoperability on OS X

2008-07-08 Thread ab_lists
On 08 Jul 2008, at 17:43, Hamish Allan wrote: It's worth noting that there is already something of a de facto tag structure in SpotMeta (http://www.fluffy.co.uk/spotmeta/spotmeta_org.html). SpotMeta hasn't been updated for Leopard (the COM swizzling stuff has stopped working) but it's under

Re: Why is [nil aMessage] a no-op?

2008-04-18 Thread ab_lists
On 18 Apr 2008, at 06:20, Adam P Jenkins wrote: Of course (and as you have discovered), there are an awful lot of situations where a 'nil' return value is actually indicative of a serious problem -- something has failed that shouldn't have. And tracking it down can be a pain. Exactly.