Why does this happen??

Jasoco

Video Gamer/Collector
Why is it that this happens?

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Notice the icon is a 32x32 pixel type. Now there's no reason this should happen. I found out where this icon is located. It's located in the HIToolBox.rsrc file buried in the System folder of OS X. It seems Apple forgot to make all OS X icons have 128x128 formats.


Another mess up I notice is that when I used IE, partially downloaded files used 32x32 pixel formatted versions of an icon from the Classic version of IE instead of the nice 128x128 versions the OS X IE has in it.


There is no reason this should be. I hope 10.2 fixes these little goofs. I mean Apple makes a big stink about OS X having nice 128x128 icons then grabs horribly pixellated icons instead.


Anoither thing I notice is that that file also has a ton of old 32x32 versions of the icon embedded in there for some reason. Just taking up space if you ask me.
 
I'm guessing that it's IE thats giving these files the 32x32 icons.

All those icons in the HIToolBox.rsrc file are probably there to provide backwards compatibilty for files saved in OS9.
 
My point is that Apple decided to not provide a 128x128 version of the above pictured icon for some strange reason to place on ".webloc" files. ".webloc" is the Mac OS equivilant to Windows ".url" files.

See what I mean now? The icon it's using is provided by Apple. I guess they forgot the "Thumbnail" version of the icon.
 
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