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BBEdit 6.1 and OmniWeb conflict confirmed

BBEdit 6.1 and OmniWeb conflict confirmed

CNET staff
This MacFixIt Forums thread (BBedit 6.1 and Omniweb) describes a conflict between the newly released BBEdit 6.1 and OmniWeb: "Cannot get OmniWeb to open a file created in BBedit 6.1. Get message, "Cannot Load Address.."

    A reply from the author of OmniWeb states: "I've fixed this for the next release (coming very, very soon). For the curious: The problem was that BBEdit (and Internet Explorer) use Mac OS 9-style file URLs (from back when the native file system didn't use paths), while OmniWeb (and Finder, Mail, etc.- anything which uses Mac OS X's built-in URL objects) use Mac OS X-style file URLs (which use the native POSIX path to the file). For the next release, when OmniWeb fails to find the specified file at the native path it tries to interpret the path as Mac OS 9 would have, and if that works it converts that back to a Mac OS X file URL and redirects to it."