No.<p>All apps designed for Macs by people who actually know what they are doing are resource fork aware, even though resource forks have gone out of fashion.<p>Like it was said before, resource forks have been around since the first version of the Macintosh (I believe MacOS was called &quot;System&quot; at that time), and it was a rather clever way to keep data such as dialog boxes, message strings and icons out of the executable file while keeping it a single file.