Re: Bill Gates as he presents the Windows Media Player system crash

Blair Sutton <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Jan 2005 22:41:35 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.gtk
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Ron Hunter wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
> 
>> The movie clip everyone is looking for, Bill Gates as he presents the 
>> Windows Media Player system crash
>>
> 
> Ok, guys.  Here is the living proof that what I said about TB's 
> presentation of file names is DANGEROUS, DANGEROUS, DANGEROUS!  You 
> MIGHT think this is a .mov file, since you can't see the .exe following 
> it.  Maybe if a few of the programmers get a virus from it, they will do 
> as I suggested MONTHS ago and ALWAYS display the FULL NAME of any 
> attachment!

I agree. If there's a restriction on attachment name length we should 
place the ellipses in the centre i.e. Bill...es.mov.exe. Thus making the 
extension clear as well as the beginning of the file name.