Aaron Andersen wrote: > Two years later, on March 16, 2000 someone filed a bug asking mozilla > to support the nonstandard proprietary extension known as favicon.ico.
Since when did standards intrude into UI and feature development for applications? Is there a "standard" web browser front end? A "standard" bookmarks manager? A "standard" productivity suite? A "standard" game of minesweeper? The day a standards body determines the feature set of all software is the day the industry will be ruined for good. That's also counter to the frequent companion cry of "the community doesn't want (foo)." Is the standards system a grassroots system? No. It's a group of people from various companies (like Netscape) that pay buckets of money to be part of the select few that get to make the decisions. > Somehow, over the strong objections of many people, it was checked in > and turned on in 0.9.7. Somehow, over the strong objections of many, George W. Bush implemented tax cuts in the US. Somehow, over the strong objections of many, Netscape no longer supplies its engineers with free soft drink.
