- From: Jonas Jørgensen <jonasj@jonasj.dk>
- Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 22:44:12 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org, www-dom@w3.org
- Cc: Brian Bober <netdemonz@yahoo.com>
Vadim Plessky wrote: > On Monday 03 December 2001 04:38, Brian Bober wrote: > | HTML and DOM stickers: > | > | Please CC me on any replies. > | > [...] > | > | 2) favicon.ico > | > | Please say something about favicon - like the favicon.ico method is > | against the standard. Mozilla is adding support for it and is also going > | to try to move people over to the <link rel="icon"> method with > | evangelism allowing any image format (including .ico). Favicon creates > | unnecessary spam in server logs. > | > > But at the same time favicon enhances user's browsing expereince. > When you see favicon in bookmark or in location bar, you can understand > better what is this site about (in case when icon is goog, of course) > > As about server logs - you can store data in database (and auto-exclude hits > for FavIcon) or do not look at server logs at all. For user experience, the <link> method is good enough. No need to spam all servers with favicon.ico requests. /Jonas
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