Re: Decisions on Bugs

["David Adam Bordoley" <bordoley msu edu>]

Christian Persch writes:
> Some info about IE favicon support from
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/Author/dhtml/howto/ShortcutIcon.asp :
> - it does support the <link> thing (although with a non-standard rel
> attribute, "SHORTCUT ICON" instead of "ICON". gecko understands both
> variants)
> - it only _displays_ the favicon in the address bar [and bookmarks menu]
> when the user has bookmarked the page

I was unaware of this. In this case can we at least follow the IE behavior 
and fetch the icon if the site is bookmarked as a fallback? 

> - it only supports .ico files apparently 
>
> It's clear to me that the www.example.com/favicon.ico was never meant to
> be fetched unconditionally for every page on the host; and I don't think
> we should do that. 
>
> I vote NOTABUG too.

Ok I agree given your statements above. 

dave