Yes, we care. Don't confuse having different values than yours with not caring. The feature you seem to dislike so much started as numerous requests from our customers, users and reviewers. Our marketing department notified us of the strong demand for such a feature. Management ensured that it was properly planned, and approved spending time and money on it. Engineering designed and implemented it. QA wrote test plans for it, and is testing it.
One benefit is that users can tell, at a glance, the current site, and which site such bookmarks came from, much faster than they could ever read the URL. They can thus browse faster and with fewer errors. Hopefully, that will lead to more of them choosing our browser, which means more visitors to our web properties, and more advertising and other revenue for Netscape and AOL. AOL also benefits from having more people using any mozilla-based browser, since that gives web authors more reason not to knuckle under and let Microsoft own the web. Obviously, we all benefit from that. This is why we need to build mozilla for the masses. Peter Jonathan Wilson wrote: > From what I have seen with things like favicon.ico and other things > not really. > Accually, its probobly more like this: > The engineers and coders do care about the browser and want to make it > better (no, reading favicon.ico when first loading the page even if > not asked to by the user with no way to turn it off is not better) > But on the other hand, we have the managers and marketing department > plus the people at AOLTW that seem not to care about the product known > as mozilla and also as netscape 6. What I dont understand is just what > AOLTW or netscape corp accually gains out of this favicon.ico thing.
