Peter Lairo wrote:
> That argument is silly. You could make the same argument for any of IE's
> non-standard (but widely used) features. This whole favicon thing (to
> me) goes against all that Mozilla is trying to achieve.
This is a non argument. This is exactly the same non argument that the
people used in 1991-92 against Mail User Agents implementing the
X-Faces header field.
Let me remind you what Eric Meyer says about standards : "a standard
is a standard until it is changed ; then it's a standard again, but
different".
Favicons are not a 'de jure' standard. Favicons are a 'de facto'
standard. They provide an excellent visual hint about a web page
or a bookmark. Just like the icons on your desktop or in the task
toolbar (even KDE have them).
To summarize :
1. icons and pictograms help users
2. don't tell me about standards, please...
3. the generated traffic is, given point #1 above, insignificant in
comparison with the tons of crap downloaded each day from the world
wide web
</Daniel>
