[vorbis] The OGG Extension...

[Erik Moeller]

On 9 Jul 2000, at 7:49, Jack Moffitt wrote:

> This argument is silly.  A typical user will click on an ogg file and
> it will just work.

It's mystery meat. You don't know what's in it until you eat it. Any 
file lister that does not actually check the file header (and most 
don't) cannot tell you the difference between an audio or video file. 
That's a mistake. 

Extensions are a pretty clever way to avoid having to look at each 
individual file. Three-letter-extensions have the advantage of being 
short enough for manual use while offering a big enough variety of 
possible combinations.

> Windows usually hides the extensions anyway, so differentiating 
> based on them is just silly.

No, it's not, since programs register different icons for different 
extensions.

Regards,
Erik Moeller

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