> Of the Media Metrix top 500 sites, 45% have valid favicon responses, > nearly all of which are valid favicons. The degree to which > favicon.ico is already supported by the top sites on the Web should > not be underestimated or ignored.
So you are advocating that we request, on every site we visit, a file which over half of the time is not going to exist? According to that statistic, the majority of favicon.ico requests we make result in a 404. Doesn't that bother you in the slightest? > To expect Mozilla representatives to be able to evangelize any > significant percentage of these sites to use the <link> solution is > IMO overly optimistic. > > Without supporting favicon.ico, the usefulness of the custom icon > feature is zero. Do you know what the number one rank on the Madia Matrix Top 50 Web Properties list is? AOL Time Warner. You are employed by AOL Time Warner. And so are the majority of rest of the leaders of this project. I find it hard to believe that with as many AOLTW employees as we have working on this project, we couldn't get favicon link tags (as well as regular link tags, and mozilla compatible code) on Netscape.com, AOL.com, Time.com, CNN.com, MapQuest.com, and dozens of others. That's a good start on those 225 sites right there. Maybe you're right. Maybe we wouldn't be able to get anybody to do this correctly. But one thing is certain, if we (or Netscape) leave automatic favicon.ico fetching on, we never will. Aaron
