Andrew Cowie said: > Historical tidbit: > > This showed up as an undocumented feature in IE circa 2000. Instead of > the IE "e" beside the address bar, it would render the icon that came > from that site but only if you had a site bookmarked in IE's > "favourites" list - hence "favourites icon". That requirement always > struck me as strange, as well as the fixed name.
> > Anyway, shortly thereafter Opera started sticking these cute little > icons into tabs, and it caught on. thanks, Andrew whilst on (ancient) history: the old IBM WebExplorer circa... 95 ? had something similar, allowing to display an animation in upper RHS, instead of WebEx's logo that was normally there, AFAICR, this syntax made it happen: <frame src="./icons/0000.GIF"> <frame src="./icons/0001.GIF"> in 45x45 perhaps that was forrunner of favicon..? -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
