I believe this started back with Adobe, where you could name a file .jpg or .jpeg. I was under the impression it was for compatibility with OS X which named files any which way, because their OS is not dependent on a dot extension like Windows was.
If you really want to go way back, Apple Classic didn't use dot extensions at all, and OS X still does not have to. Apple Classic has a header to the file which told the OS all kinds of neat things like the file type and creator. I thought this was a much superior system, because you could not fool the OS into opening a file with another application (like a bit of malware), but you COULD intentionally do it by dragging a file onto another application and dropping it. The irony is that all these years I have been ranting, "Who the H*** thought it was a good idea to use dot3 to tell the OS what application a document belonged to???" ;-) Bob On Jan 20, 2011, at 9:37 PM, Ken Ray wrote: >> So, my question is "Who the H*** decided, in their little pea-brain, that >> they would break the convention (that has been around since Pontius was a >> Pilot) of a filename, a period (a full-stop for all you commonwealth people) >> and then finally a three character suffix."? >> >> Don't you think that this git should be taken out and tarred and feathered? > > Well, they certainly aren't the first to break this convention: > > .html (HTML Pages) > .docx, .xlsx, .pptx (Microsoft Office Documents) > .torrent (Bittorrent) > .curl (CURL) > .ooutline (OmniOutliner Documents) > .styk, .stykz (Stykz Documents) > > etc... > > Just FYI, > > Ken Ray > Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. > Email: k...@sonsothunder.com > Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
