"Gervase Markham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > To expect Mozilla representatives to be able to evangelize any > > significant percentage of these sites to use the <link> solution is IMO > > overly optimistic. > > It may be overly optimistic in your opinion, Dave, but why could you not > have adopted the plan I suggested at the beginning? That was > > - leave it turned off by default > - give those who want to evangelise a couple of months to put their time > where their mouth is > - if still no sites are using <link>, turn it on. > > However, by turning it on immediately, you rob them of any leverage in > doing that evangelism - > "Hey! Use <link rel=icon> for cool tab-related and URL bar effects in > Mozilla and Netscape 6" > > "Er, we already get that." > > "Um...". > > Gerv >
Maybe I'm missing the point here, but given the choice between adding <link rel=icon> to hundreds of pages or simple dropping a favicon in the root, I'll take the favicon. jy
