Jonas J�rgensen wrote: > Look, I see your point, and I understand why you want this feature. Your > main concern is to get end users to use Netscape 6. The reasons *not* to > pursue it has been explained many times in this and other threads, no > need for me to say what have been said a hundred times already. But what > about in one year? If Mozilla-based browsers have a large enough market > share to have influence on major web sites, will automatic favicon > fetching then be turned off, or will it stay on? (I would very much like > an answer to that question!)
Most ``Mozilla-based browsers'' other than Netscape6 (in fact, every one that I can think of) make use of the layout engine, not the Navigator chrome that embeds it. Favicon (and <link> icon) support are not part of the core layout engine. chris
