Jonas Sicking wrote: > >One thing that you can do is to get some numbers on how you are hurt by the >favicon fetching. > Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for when I asked why people hate it. The 'objections of the community' are heard on many issues, and there is usually no way to determine consensus among the cacophony, even if the personal preferences of newsgroup posters reflected the real needs of typical users (it does not). Compromise is the hallmark of 'design by committee', which is known to suck. I don't know any case where great software has been produced by tyranny of the majority, so voting should not be the means of deciding. The standards argument has been shown to be invalid in this case. I am pretty sure that typical users don't have strong negative feelings about it, so I suspected that bandwidth or other server concerns were the real, though unquantified, problem. The closer we can identify *exactly* what the problem is, the better chance we have to come up with an acceptable solution.
Webmasters- what has this cost you? Peter
