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> What saddens me the most is to see those kids who grew up with a smartphone in their hand trying to convert a picture by renaming it Why shouldn't that work?
by vosper 6y ago
> What saddens me the most is to see those kids who grew up with a smartphone in their hand trying to convert a picture by renaming it
Why shouldn't that work? I think it would be pretty great if changing the file extension popped up a helper that asked me if I wanted to convert from HEIC to JPG?
Really, no-one should have to think about file formats when they're trying to do something that has nothing intrinsically to do with file formats.
Seems more like a failure of software engineering, to me.
- megiddo 6y agoMaybe for common formats, but that assumes the file was correctly named to start with. It also assumes there's a trivial or reasonable conversion between formats. What happens if I rename a CAD file to MP3? The failure of engineering was clearly with the test authors - they should have been validating their inputs.
- vosper 6y ago> What happens if I rename a CAD file to MP3? "This kind of file is for a [computer-aided design system]. It is not an [MP3 music] file and so it cannot be used by [music playing software]. Would you still like to rename the file?"