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A Plausible Argument
Authored by: nicksay on Oct 29, '03 01:03:02PM

Rob's comment at the bottom of the hint question's Apple's decision to move the default application settings into the applications themselves, thinking it may be to force Apple application usage.

Perhaps. I don't think that's it though. The old preference pane system only allowed a few default applications to be set, those handling mail and web protocols. There are a myriad of other protocols whose default application therfore could not be set (e.g. afp, daap, file, finger, ftp, gopher, news, etc, etc). I think what Apple has chosen to do is move the responsibility of chosing the default application for that protocol to the applications that use that protocol. Thus, it would make sense that any mail program can now set the default application for the mailto protocol. Any web browser can now set the default application for the http protocol, and so on.

The converse approach would have been to extend the preference pane to handle all the protocols (like the 3rd party "More Internet" preference pane mentioned above). I think Apple thought that so many protocols, most (if not all) of which are not changed by the average user, would bog down and confuse said average user.

Just a thought.



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A Plausible Argument
Authored by: Anidel on Oct 30, '03 12:55:38AM

Actually I think that the Image Capture app was already doing the same. You had to run it in order to be able to change the default application to run when pluggin-in a digital camera.

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