On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> 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.
What sucks is it's MS lock-in. To create a .ico file you have to have a
Windows machine. So webmasters now have to have windows machines to work
with this concept. Had it been .png I would have felt differently.
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