- From: Brian Bober <netdemonz@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:05:33 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
Mozilla supports doing favicons via the <link rel="shortcut icon"> or <link rel="icon"> method, and used to do an aggressive search for favicon.ico, but that was turned off. IE does the aggressive search whenever you bookmark the site, but also supports (as far as I know) the link method. That means whenever you bookmark a site in IE, you get erroneous log entries if you don't have favicon.ico A browser shouldn't be searching for a file unless its requested via the html document. 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? If you don't want that and other extensions to be part of the actual spec, could you have a clause mentioning other common de-facto link types? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
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