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oldmanyellsatcloud.gif But seriously, it's a silly limitation from a bygone era. Why should we adhere to it? Why should we have to remember these things? Some
by freshyill 12y ago
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But seriously, it's a silly limitation from a bygone era. Why should we adhere to it?
Why should we have to remember these things? Some of them are easy to remember, but even less technical users change their workflows from time to time.
Sketch uses ".sketch" as its extension. Should they have gone with something ".skc" as their extension, just because that's *the way things are done?", even though the application only runs on the latest version of an operating system without that primitive limitation?
Even with Markdown, most people use ".md", but Gruber has expressed ".markdown" as his preference because the limitation doesn't really exist.
- Gigablah 12y agoWhy should we even have extensions in the first place? Ideally the filetype should be determined from metadata or scanning the header. (Speaking as someone who's had to fix image file processing bugs because the original coder trusted file extensions to be correct.)
- bluedino 12y agoAnd this is how the Mac has worked for a long time.