Re: favicon.ico vs <link> - add link type for shortcut icon?

Robin Lionheart wrote:

>Brian Bober wrote:
>:: This is obviously an old issue, but couldn't we add
>:: "shortcut icon" or just "icon" and "shorcut" meaning the same thing (and
>:: working if placed together) into
>:: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-links?
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>rel="shortcut icon" defines two relationships, 'shortcut' and 'icon'.
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>A definition of rel="icon" would suffice.
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>rel="shortcut" isn't an appropriate relationship between a document and an
>icon, since "shortcut" is IE's synonym for "bookmark". Better to leave
>"shortcut" undefined and ignored.
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rel="icon" should be added to the spec. It is already supported by 
Mozilla, I don't know if IE supports it or not.
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