[Playlist] Is .xsp a valid XSPF file extension?

Lucas Gonze lgonze at panix.com
Fri Oct 12 19:48:30 UTC 2007



On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Sebastian Pipping wrote:

> Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote:
>> Three letter extensions are a limitation of the FAT system.  Please avoid it.
>>
>> It's already bad enough for Ogg, which has to work everywhere and
>> forced us to choose three letter extensions (.oga, blah).  This is not
>> a problem for XSPF, though.  It is used on modern systems and mostly
>> over decent file systems and the Internet.
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> That's acually a good point. Should we really
> exclude Windows 95 users by design? They have
> to suffer a enough - should they really have
> to live without XSPF?

I don't think we should exclude them by design, but I wouldn't spend our 
limited energy on them.  They'll be used to the consequences of living in 
a strange netherworld mashup between 15-year old computing standards and 
present ones.

There is still a community of Xywrite users, too.









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