- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 21:53:33 +0100 (BST)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> It's called a 'favicon' and only works in Internet Explorer 5.0 and This feature caused/causes a lot of annoyance for web sites as it produces signifcant traffic for a resource called /favicon.ico. For the many sites that are not aware of it, these accesses are always misses, and therefore uncacheable. It almost forces sites to support this proprietory feature to suppress the traffic. I'm not sure, but I have a feeling that it gets hit every time that someone accesses their "favourites" for the first time in a session. favicon is coined from "favourites icon", as the primary use is to add an icon to the favourites (bookmarks) list. .ico files are Microsoft's proprietory format for Windows icon bitmaps.
Received on Saturday, 21 April 2001 17:13:38 UTC