Seems it would be a good idea to create a favicon.ico loudly extolling the
virtues of all thing non-M$ (8-)
Howard.
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Aussie wrote:
> Date sent: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 21:12:39 +1100
> From: Ben Donohue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [SLUG] what is favicon.ico
>
> > hi all,
> > in my web server logs i get the following...
> >
> > "get /blahblah/favicon.ico http/1.0" 404 172
> >
> > obviously i don't have a favicon.ico hence the 404 file not found.
> > but why is the search engine or whatever looking for a favicon.ico?
> > beats me. i know i could make one but... --
>
> Well, it's easy to see you don't use IE5 then. When an IE5 user
> bookmarks a site, IE5 automatically searches for favicon.ico to place
> beside the bookmark. If the icon file is not found, a default icon is
> used.
>
> Aussie
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