For a very useful and readable summary of this issue, see:
http://db.tidbits.com/article/10537
-- Peter
Peter M. Brigham
pmb...@gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
On Sep 13, 2009, at 10:56 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
stephen barncard wrote:
As a long time mac user from the beginning, I've always thought the
type and
creator codes were VERY useful to eliminate the ambiguity of what
to launch
and I put down the PC method of using suffixes as being brain dead.
Apparently the Mac team did too, as we learned loudly when the NeXT
team followed Steve back to Apple and tried to get rid of creator
codes in their new OS X under the argument that they were unnecessary.
This internal turf war was mirrored by developers on Apple's UI
developer mailing list.
For all the many years Apple has been hosting discussion lists for
developers, to the best of my knowledge the UI list was shut down
only once, and that was over this issue.
The outcry from people like you about the merit of creator codes was
sweeping and furious, yet the NeXTites felt secure knowing that
since they had been loyal with Steve all this time their opinion
would ultimately prevail.
Among developers on the UI list this issue caused a flame war so
great the list was taken offline for quite a while, and it was many
months (more than a year IIRC) before it was resurrected.
Now, all these many years later, Apple is at last losing this once-
valuable bit of metadata.
If there is comfort in this otherwise sad passing, it's for us multi-
platform developers:
With every step Apple takes to eliminate differences between OSes,
the less forked code we need to write. As they decrease their
unique value, they increase ours. :)
If only the world's OS vendors would come to common agreement on the
placement of dialog buttons....
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com
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