Peter Trudelle wrote: > Jonas J�rgensen wrote: > >> I dislike it because I think it's the wrong way to implement this >> feature. Sure, I could turn it off manually in my prefs.js, but what >> good would it do when 99.9% of all Mozilla users still has it enabled? >> It would still spam servers with the requests, > > So, is your concern more about the efficiency of the implementation, > alone,
Yes. > or does the extra server bandwidth affect you directly in some way? No. The automatic favicon.ico fetching doesn't affect me directly - just like it wouldn't affect me directly if someone wanted to implement document.all support in Mozilla, since I never use document.all. But I still want automatic favicon.ico fetching to be taken out of Mozilla, for the same reason I would complain if someone added document.all support to Mozilla: It is simply a Bad Thing. >> it would still create problems for people who doesn't know about or >> doesn't want page icons but suddenly finds their ISP or hosting >> provider's icon in the URL bar. > > You are complaining on behalf of other users? How do you know they > don't like the page icon? Some people like it. They can add it to their page manually. No problem. Some people don't like it. If they are required to add a <link rel="icon" href="blank.ico"/> to their own page just to avoid seeing an icon that they don't want, *that is* a problem. -- /Jonas
