[X-Apps] Preferences-not being saved

Allen Watson allenwatson at earthlink.net
Mon Mar 17 11:51:31 PST 2003


On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 14:43:50 -0500, Mike Warren <tvillemw at alltel.net> wrote:

> On Sunday, March 16, 2003, at 02:36 PM, Allen Watson wrote:
>> That file is DEFINITELY used by Internet Explorer.

>
> Thanks for confirming that, Allen. What a crummy design on Microsoft's
> part. After I posted that message, I looked at that file in TextEdit.
> It has dict entries for which color to underline web links with, font
> sizes, etc. none of which belongs in Apple's internet plist. So, now
> I'm off to trash that file along with MS-IE.
>
Actually, as I understand it, Microsoft is just following Apple's
guidelines, which state that the Internet preferences file _should_ be used
by Internet applications for such things.
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