Re: Need for a creator code?

FROM : Jean-Daniel Dupas
DATE : Wed Apr 02 01:42:07 2008

Le 1 avr. 08 à 22:26, Andrew Farmer a écrit :

> On 01 Apr 08, at 12:59, Marc Respass wrote:

>> I haven't registered for a creator code since System 7.5. Apple has 
>> information and registration page (http://developer.apple.com/datatype/index.html
>> ) about it but no indication if it's actually still required. Can 
>> anyone tell me if it is still required or maybe point me at the 
>> right information?

>
> Type and creator codes have been deprecated since Tiger, which 
> introduced UTIs. (Maybe even longer; I'm not sure.) Either way, you 
> can safely forget they ever existed.
>
> I'm just surprised that page is still active.


As you cannot embed an UTI in a document, UTI is useless to identify 
the document type if the document does not provide an extension or an 
HFS Type.
Or maybe I miss something ?