[haiku-development] Re: MIME types.

  • From: "Ari Haviv" <arielbhaviv@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:17:10 -0400

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Bruno Albuquerque <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As we all know, Haiku relies in a MIME-based system to identify file types.
> This was a really smart thing Be did and we, of course, adopted in Haiku.
> Still, this system is a bit awkward and under-utilized and I have two
> specific pet-peeves that I think could improve the situation:

There may be something to learn from Apple's solution
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10-4.ars/11

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