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wmf on June 25, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cool URIs don't change.

BeOS did that. I think it's a shame that OS X seems to be moving backwards in this respect.

astrodust on June 25, 2012 [–]

Files used to be tied to applications directly. While I prefer the BeOS approach of MIME-type, it's not nearly as user-friendly as a file extension.

OS X tries to hide extensions by default, which like the behavior in Windows that's similar, seems dangerous. Too many times people have been stung by sexy.jpg.exe.

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