- From: Douglas Clifton <dwclifton@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:13:50 -0500
- To: public-evangelist@w3.org
On 3/24/06, Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl> wrote: > > Quoting Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>: > > We drafted a document on > > "How to add a favicon to your Site" > > http://www.w3.org/2005/10/howto-favicon > > > > The document is open for reviews, suggestions and proposals. > > The future of this document will depend on your comments and if the > > QA IG as large think it would be interesting to give it more > > visibility. > > The problem with using <link rel="icon"> is that it doesn't work for > everything. > If you put it in the predefined location, being `/favicon.ico`, you > will not get > any 404s in case you missed a directory or file etc. Of course, it > would be nice > if there would be some official draft on how to deal with this, as well > as with > robots.txt and P3P. > > Using it for other files might be possible using HTTP: > > Link: <favicon.ico>; rel="icon" > > > -- > Anne van Kesteren > <http://annevankesteren.nl/> I would prefer to have one <link> with rel="icon" and a definition of the relationship in a profile. The other methods are only there so that as many user agents as possible will find the icon. I believe everyone is aware of the history behind URI squatting the image in docroot, and the term "shortcut." Even the MIME type for .ico files is inaccurate. Again, a legacy browser issue prevents this error from being corrected. -- Douglas Clifton dwclifton@gmail.com http://loadaveragezero.com/ http://loadaveragezero.com/app/s9y/ http://loadaveragezero.com/drx/rss/recent
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