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Re:Cool URIs don't change. by wmf on Monday June 25, 2012 @10:12AM (#4156562)
BeOS did that. I think it's a shame that OS X seems to be moving backwards in this respect.
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Re:Cool URIs don't change. by astrodust on Monday June 25, 2012 @12:17PM (#4157183)
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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