Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 8th Sep 2009 21:36 UTC
"When you double-click a document in the Finder, how does the system decide what application should open it? The relationship between a document and its owning application is called a preferred application binding. Since the very first day of the very first version of Mac OS X, there has been an uneasy detente between the Unix way of binding documents to applications and the former Mac way, inherited from the early days of the Mac OS. Now, in Snow Leopard, users and developers are complaining that the Unix way is being allowed to run roughshod over the Mac way."
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2005-07-06
When I read the headline I got hopeful, as the behavior of documents opening in their creator applications is IMHO extremely annoying. But after reading the comments on the article's website I realized that all they did was follow through on deprecating the old creator code API and replacing it with something called UTI. Apps can still use UTI to specify that documents should be opened with them.
In other words, the behavior will be back in action, as soon as developers get around to updating their apps. Oh well... At least I can enjoy the temporary prospect of the old behavior being broken....