On 11/18/2001 12:26 PM, Greg Miller wrote:

> Tim Wunder wrote:
> 
> 
>>Greg Miller wrote:
>>Huh?
>>It's OK to block Mozilla because of favicon requests, but not IE? 
>>Wouldn't IE, because of its prevalence, cause MORE of a problem for your 
>>servers than Mozilla?
>>
> 
> First off, IE only makes favicon requests in the event of a bookmark. 
> Second, IE accounts for nearly 90% of my pageviews, while Mozilla-based 
> browsers total a little under 1.5%. It's a simple question of 
> cost-effectiveness.


You should do what is right and that decision should not be based on 
whether a browser has 90% or 1.5% of the market share. Why don't you use 
document.all on your website and then say "But it displays fine in IE" 
when someone complains about Mozilla. I think its wrong to block one and 
not block another when they are both guilty of the same crime.

 
> Moreover, I don't know that there's anything IE users can do to disable 
> these requests. Is there?


Yes scream at Microsoft and make them put in a pref. Just because 
Mozilla is open source and you know whats happening doesn't mean that 
you can block it and not block IE because it is closed and no one but 
Microsoft has control over it. Would you have banned NS6.5 if it was a 
closed source browser and had this favicon feature?

If you're blocking Mozilla then you had better block IE anytime someone 
bookmarks your website. (and Konqueror too)

Pratik.


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