Re: Need for a creator code?

FROM : Ken Thomases
DATE : Wed Apr 02 20:56:29 2008

On Apr 2, 2008, at 6:46 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:
>
> Le 2 avr. 08 à 12:52, Keith Duncan a écrit :
>

>>> Oh. Looks like I'm off the hook. The UTI, I expect, is the bundle 
>>> identifier, no?

>>
>> I don't think anyone actually answered this question for you. 
>> Basically no, your bundle identifier is a URI.
>>

>
> And to complete the answer, UTI are here to «replace» Type code, not 
> Creator code.


Except it doesn't.  As others have pointed out, you can tag a file 
with a type code and/or you can tag it with a filename extension.  But 
you can't tag it with a UTI.  A UTI is _derived_from_ the things it 
would replace.  Given a naked file, you can't come up with its UTI 
(except perhaps in rare cases by file magic).

Thus we still need filename extensions and, I think, type codes. 
Which is a bit of a shame.

-Ken_______________________________________________

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