There’s a way to force an association between a file type and an application, but that application still has to recognize the extension. Browsers don’t recognize these files by default. He has a number of HTML templates, but to differentiate them from his production. Macworld reader Rick would like to monkey with that.
On the web, file extensions are effectively mandatory so a browser knows how to handle a file appropriately. jpg) were optional, although often used for compatibility with other platforms and with web. File extensions, those bits of text that follow a period at the end of a file (like. Back in the pre-Mac OS X and macOS days, Apple’s System 9 and earlier relied on hidden metadata to associate files with apps.