Re: Another IE5 complaint

[Jeffrey W. Baker]

Rod Butcher wrote:
> 
> Am I the only battling service vendor who actually feels good when
> somebody bookmarks my website ?
> I can absorb the overhead of accesses to a favorites icon.
> This may be a security hazard for the client, but I detect a
> holier-than-thou attitude here against M$.
> Will somebody tell me why this M$ initiative is bad, other than for
> pre-determined prejudices ?
> Rgds
> Rod Butcher

What he said.  I don't see what sucks so much about burning a few bytes
of bandwith to have your site's big fat icon on the user's desktop!  And
it isn't like they made up an HTTP ICON request type, they are using
standard methods to get the file.

-jwb