From kfm-devel Thu Nov 30 14:31:54 2000 From: Richard Moore Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 14:31:54 +0000 To: kfm-devel Subject: Re: support for favicon.ico X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=97559461207669 Andreas Pour wrote: > > Keunwoo Lee wrote: > > > > BTW a while back IE's favicon.ico support annoyed some people because it > > allows websites to track the bookmarking behavior of users. Sounds minor, > > and yes these people are probably paranoid, but IMHO if this is > > implemented, a user option to disable it should be a priority. > > Hmm, I think the technology works a bit different, at least from what I can > tell from log files. When a browser first visits a site it looks for > favicon.ico in the root directory, and I think it can display it somewhere in > the browser (like where the Konqueror gear is) while you are browsing the site. It is displayed in the location combo in IE5. Rich. -- Richard Moore rich@ipso-facto.freeserve.co.uk http://www.macromedia.com/ rjmoore@macromedia.com http://developer.kde.org/ rich@kde.org