Jonas Jørgensen wrote: > Ben Goodger wrote: > >> The automatic favicon.ico fetching doesn't affect me directly - just > >> like it wouldn't affect me directly if someone wanted to implement > >> document.all support in Mozilla, since I never use document.all. But > >> I still want automatic favicon.ico fetching to be taken out of > >> Mozilla, for the same reason I would complain if someone added > >> document.all support to Mozilla: It is simply a Bad Thing. > > > >> I'm entitled to have whatever beliefs I wish, as are you. But I'm not >> entitled to expect that when I make demands of others based on those >> beliefs that they will actually bend to my will, if they do not share >> them. > > > > Are you saying that because automatic favicon.ico fetching doesn't > affect me directly, I shouldn't care? The bombing of the World Trade > Center did not affect me directly since I didn't know anyone who was > there - should I not care about that either, then? > > You know, there _are_ people out there who are very annoyed by seeing > their ISP's icon on their pages, and who doesn't how to disable it. I've > seen complaints in support forums about it. So automatic favicon.ico > fetching *does create problems*.
In fact, it makes demands of others based on AOLzilla's beliefs, doesn't it? > Turning it off would not do any harm, > since people who want it can add it manually with <link>. > > The question that remains is: Why? Why do we need to automatically > request a file called favicon.ico when no icon is specified? Why is that > any better than automatically requesting favbackg.gif when no background > is specified? > Somebody paid to have it added. Apparantly somebody with more money than sense.
