- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 15:30:21 -0700
- To: <www-html@w3.org>, "Walter Ian Kaye" <walter@natural-innovations.com>
Walter Ian Kaye wrote: > I just re-read that. "for every version" -- where'dja get the idea that > Mac file types are registered for different versions? While Microsoft > chose to do that with 'XLS3', 'XLS4' instead of just 'XLS ', there's > nothing that says they had to. PICT1 and PICT2 are both type 'PICT', > for example. It's up to the developer. Frankly, I don't understand why > Microsoft changed the file type, since it stores the info internally. > Perhaps they only did that to reference new icons... :) I got that impression from someone who also argued that file extensions would need version info. Where'd you see the XLS3 and XLS4 extensions? It's still XLS for spreadsheets. XLA is for workbooks -- compilations of related spreadsheets. David Perrell
Received on Thursday, 24 October 1996 18:36:22 UTC