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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: support for favicon.ico
From:       Simon Hausmann <sh () caldera ! de>
Date:       2000-11-29 10:07:32
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On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 05:48:11PM +0100, Daniel Molkentin wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> As I found out at 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/Author/dhtml/howto/ShortcutIcon.asp ,
> Microsoft has established a way to let the site pass an icon to the
> browser (www.heise.de does it among others). The Adantave is clear:
> You can easily rerecognize an a Bookmarkentry in the Bookmarkbar/menu.
> 
> 1. Way: put a file called favicon.ico in the Serverrrot
> 2. Way: use something like <LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON"
> HREF="http://www.mydomain.com/myicon.ico">

How do they do it? Pass it (the url of the icon) as part of the HTML document?
 
> Can Qt handle .ico files? Do you agree that this a handy feature?

AFAIK not.
 
> khtml could emit a signal hasFavIcon() to give konqis bookmark facility
> a hint (and the Icon itself). But I am not sure if this would work.

Another way might be to extract the icon URL from the DOM tree, using the DOM
API.

Bye,
 Simon

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