Archive for October 7, 2009

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Creator Codes and UTIs

John Gruber:

There is nothing any developer can do, with UTIs or with any other supported technology, to restore the functionality of creator codes in Snow Leopard. It’s just wrong. UTIs indicate a file’s type, not the application in which it should open by default. Furthermore, developers can’t even directly assign UTIs to files. UTIs are derived from file name extensions.

A good summary.