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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: support for favicon.ico
From:       Keunwoo Lee <klee () cs ! washington ! edu>
Date:       2000-11-30 1:30:59
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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.

Also, I don't see why we should restrict this to .ico files, at least for
the second method.  We could rough in support for XPM and PNG, and later
add the .ico filter.

Granted, developer.kde.org might be the only website that would take
advantage of PNG icons :), but it's still worth a shot.  Why should people
writing pages for Konqueror have to get a Windows icon editor?

~k

On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Kurt Granroth wrote:

> Hans Meine wrote:
> > Simon Hausmann <sh@caldera.de> writes:
> > > > 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?
> >
> > That would be 2., obviously. I knew about 1.:
> > Simply put /favicon.ico on your server so a http "GET /favicon.ico" will find
> > it.
>
> Getting it isn't a problem.. supporting it is.  AFAIK, there is no
> support for Window Icons in Qt or KDE.  Until there is, it's really
> not practical to support this feature.

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