On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 16:01 -0500, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> Apple do use directories (as Bundle) for storing Keynote documents.
> Keynote is their presentation tool, like to create compound document.
> The heart is an XML file.
But, as a user, if I want to e.g. attach a document to an email, do you
expect me to know that I need to include *all* the contents of a
directory? The natural thing for most (all?) users is to look for a
single file. It sounds like an unnecessary usability problem.
> This cause some portability problem as this require some sort of
> flattening when carrying in e-mail and downloads, but it is less fragile
> than a .zip or .tar.gz like do OO.o and KOffice respectively.
Um, how is a .zip or .tar.gz "fragile"? I challenge you to quantify
that statement. I don't see how a .zip or .tar.gz is any less fragile
than any other way of storing a document, compressed or uncompressed.
- Charlie
Received on Wed Jan 12 23:25:15 2005
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