On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Robin Berjon wrote:
> At 20:08 23/11/1999 +0000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> >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.
>
> Not that I want to make this already too long thread even longer that bad,
> but iirc ImageMagic handles ico files. Also, it wouldn't be too hard to
> create a tool to create them.
People have missed my point. I'm not saying that .ico is a closed format
that you _can't_ create on any other platform. Just like MS Word isn't a
closed format you can't create on any other platform (the specs for MS Word
are actually available on MSDN cd's).
My point is simply that .ico is _specifically_ a windows format - all the
little .ico creating packages are windows apps for that reason. Had MS
picked .png that would be a different story altogether. But they didn't -
now why do you think that is?
Sorry, this is completely off topic, but it's decisions like these that
take place in a nanosecond that really spoil the web for a lifetime IMHO.
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