Ian Thomas wrote: > Support for IE-style 'favicons' next to bookmarks will shortly be added > to Mozilla, as a result of bug > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32087 > > There are two ways for selecting the correct favicon > 1) Using the icon specified in the relevant <LINK> tag in the header of > the HTML page > 2) If there is no link tag, then automatically trying favicon.ico > > I have no problem with the first method, since it only happens if the > webpage author indends it to happen. > > However, if the webpage author has not thought about using favicon.ico > then the second method will create a 404 on the server every time it is > bookmarked (or possibly just visited, I'm not sure when the favicon is > called for) and slow down web access. > > Since this is an eyecandy feature, I think we should only be using the > LINK method. The argument that some sites will have to change too many > pages should not be inportant, since any large site should have a method > of changing the design on many pages at once (dreamweaver will do this) > and on small sites it should be easy to do it manually. > > Please post your opinions in reply to this post, DO NOT post your > opinions on this subject in the bug report mentioned above. > > Thanks, > Ian Thomas. > > LemNet.com | QAtlantis.com >
Do we really need to modify mozilla to emulate IE?
