- From: Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:51:35 +0100
- To: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Looking at a hundred random icons, extracted from <link rel="icon">s in pages from dmoz.org, I see quite a lot of legitimate icons served with incorrect Content-Types: text/html http://www.sandpphotos.co.uk/favicon.ico text/plain http://www.ircle.com/favicon.ico http://www.jobe-industries.com/favicon.ico http://www.iss-software.com/images/favicon.ico http://www.estudi16.com/favicon.ico http://www.barcelonavacation.com/favicon.ico http://www.gargamel.jp/images/gargaweb.ico http://www.lotuscarclub.org/favicon.ico http://www.acdcrew.nl/favicon.ico http://www.newadvent.org/images/icon1.ico http://www.vespa-servizio.com/favicon.ico text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 http://www.dr-prager.info/favicon.ico http://merlin.vcpl.lib.fl.us/favicon.ico http://www.cc-paysfouesnantais.fr/design/standard/images/favicon.ico text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 http://www.mariaradio.ro/favicon.ico text/plain; charset=UTF-8 http://static.suite101.com/favicon.ico There's also 53 image/x-icon, 4 image/vnd.microsoft.icon, 4 image/gif, 3 image/png, and some redirects and 404s and server errors. At least some of the image/x-icons are not Windows ICO files, e.g. http://www.frontweb.com/images/favicon.ico and http://www.vcpa.com.au/images/favicon.ico are JPEG. Apparently HTML5 doesn't allow sniffing when these images are used in <link> (whereas it does for <img>). For compatibility with the web, that should probably be changed. -- Philip Taylor pjt47@cam.ac.uk
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