[gcs-pcs-list] on using URIs

[Daniel Chudnov]

On Mar 1, 2006, at 12:24 AM, Alf Eaton wrote:
>
> Which also makes me think... If Apple decided that file extensions  
> and MIME types are all suboptimal ways of identifying a file's  
> content, and used Uniform Type Identifiers instead <http:// 
> arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/11>, maybe UTIs are  
> something we could use for unAPI? It is after all how OS X  
> determines the types of data that can be passed through its copy- 
> paste manager.

This is a neat idea, even if the spec isn't widely adopted.

Afaict, there's nothing in unAPI as it stands to prevent people from  
using UTIs for format names.

   -dc