On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Robin Berjon wrote:
> At 20:08 23/11/1999 +, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> >What sucks is it's MS lock-in. To create a .ico file you have to have a
> >Windows machine. So webmasters now have to have windows machines to work
> >with this concept. Had it been .png I would have felt
, then the mail went out.
Joe Pearson
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From: Tim Tompkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: Another IE5 complaint
>Is this horse dead yet?!? I don't know, but let
SWQAAK
Tim Tompkins wrote:
>
> Is this horse dead yet?!? I don't know, but let's kick it an' see if it
> squeels!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim Tompkins
>
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> -Original Message-
> From: Rod Butcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 23 November 1999 10:20
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Another IE5 complaint
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Most of my users are .fr people. My logs show more than 70% of them
as IE users. MS is clearly in the process of enjoying one more
monopolistic situation. People just don't download Netscape.
What's more surprising is the enormous proportion of IE5 users over
IEx users. Seems to me that if we let
> -Original Message-
> From: Rod Butcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 23 November 1999 10:20
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Another IE5 complaint
>
>
> Am I the only battling service vendor who actually feels good when
> somebody bookmarks my w
At 20:08 23/11/1999 +, Matt Sergeant wrote:
>What sucks is it's MS lock-in. To create a .ico file you have to have a
>Windows machine. So webmasters now have to have windows machines to work
>with this concept. Had it been .png I would have felt differently.
Not that I want to make this alrea
A really cheesy 6-year old 16-bit icon making application and WINE will do it.
darren
Matt Sergeant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> What sucks is it's MS lock-in. To create a .ico file you have to have a
> Windows machine. So webmasters now have to have windows machines to work
> with this concept.
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> Rod Butcher wrote:
> >
> > Am I the only battling service vendor who actually feels good when
> > somebody bookmarks my website ?
> > I can absorb the overhead of accesses to a favorites icon.
> > This may be a security hazard for the client, but I d
That would only work for unix? Or will that mess with windows as well?
Tom Christiansen wrote:
>
> >Are you going to
> >complain about all the 404 errors in your log, or are you going to use a
> >simple RewriteRule to give people the information they are seeking?
>
> Well, in the Microsoft ca
>Are you going to
>complain about all the 404 errors in your log, or are you going to use a
>simple RewriteRule to give people the information they are seeking?
Well, in the Microsoft case, I'd probably dynamically rewrite the link
to file:///dev/mouse or file:///dev/zero, if that made any sense
Jeff Stuart wrote:
> Jeffrey Baker wrote:
> > What he said. I don't see what sucks so much about burning a few bytes
> > of bandwith to have your site's big fat icon on the user's desktop! And
> > it isn't like they made up an HTTP ICON request type, they are using
> > standard methods to get th
Rod Butcher wrote:
>
> Am I the only battling service vendor who actually feels good when
> somebody bookmarks my website ?
> I can absorb the overhead of accesses to a favorites icon.
> This may be a security hazard for the client, but I detect a
> holier-than-thou attitude here against M$.
> Wi
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Ruben I Safir wrote:
>
>
> Is this sort of thing implimented in Netscape? Is rev and rel
> implemented in any fashion?
It's not implemented for favicon, no. But LINK REL is supported by Navigator
for external CSS stylesheets, for example. That's the only use I know of,
th
Is this sort of thing implimented in Netscape? Is rev and rel
implemented in any fashion?
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IE 4/5 hits are more than 50% of the http://translator.go.com/ site I am
working on, and I make sure I serve up a favicon.ico to all of thos
guys. I get lots of bookmark requests and love it.
Rod Butcher wrote:
>
> Am I the only battling service vendor who actually feels good when
> somebody bo
> Am I the only battling service vendor who actually feels good when
> somebody bookmarks my website ?
> I can absorb the overhead of accesses to a favorites icon.
> This may be a security hazard for the client, but I detect a
> holier-than-thou attitude here against M$.
> Will somebody tell me wh
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Rod Butcher wrote:
> Am I the only battling service vendor who actually feels good when
> somebody bookmarks my website ?
No.
> I can absorb the overhead of accesses to a favorites icon.
So can I.
> This may be a security hazard for the client, but I detect a
> holier-than
of info about
this on the net if someone wants to read how to implement it the M$ way.
> --
> From: Rod Butcher[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 4:20 AM
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re:
Am I the only battling service vendor who actually feels good when
somebody bookmarks my website ?
I can absorb the overhead of accesses to a favorites icon.
This may be a security hazard for the client, but I detect a
holier-than-thou attitude here against M$.
Will somebody tell me why this M$ in
Joe Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe everyone already knows this, but I just discovered that
> whenever a IE5 user visits a page in their "Favorites", IE5 also trys
> to GET favicon.ico from the same site. Therefor I have hundreds of
> "File does not exist:" errors in my log file.
C
At 15:10 22/11/1999 -0500, Vivek Khera wrote:
>Why not just create a 10Mb large favicon.ico file for their
>convenience? ;-) ;-)
I played around with that idea, but most ICO files are really small, and it
seems that they thought of that and do not download if it is over a few k
(perhaps even less
On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, Joe Pearson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Maybe everyone already knows this, but I just discovered that
> whenever a IE5 user visits a page in their "Favorites", IE5 also trys
> to GET favicon.ico from the same site. Therefor I have hundreds of
> "File does not exist:" errors in my
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Joe Pearson wrote:
> Maybe everyone already knows this, but I just discovered that
> whenever a IE5 user visits a page in their "Favorites", IE5 also trys
> to GET favicon.ico from the same site. Therefor I have hundreds of
> "File does not exist:" errors in my log file.
Oh,
> "JP" == Joe Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JP> Maybe everyone already knows this, but I just discovered that
JP> whenever a IE5 user visits a page in their "Favorites", IE5 also trys
JP> to GET favicon.ico from the same site. Therefor I have hundreds of
JP> "File does not exist:" err
Greg Stark wrote:
>
(snip)
>
> Can the gimp save .ico files? How big and what colours etc does IE5
> expect
> these to be anyways?
>
> --
> greg
the GIMP can do it. It's a GIcon; should do the trick to win32 users.
But why should we give IE5 favicon.ico's anyway ? sounds like another
ms-made b
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 03:21:17PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote:
> "Joe Pearson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[]
> > whenever a IE5 user visits a page in their "Favorites", IE5 also trys
> > to GET favicon.ico from the same site. Therefor I have hundreds of
> > "File does not exist:" errors in my
"Joe Pearson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> Maybe everyone already knows this, but I just discovered that
> whenever a IE5 user visits a page in their "Favorites", IE5 also trys
> to GET favicon.ico from the same site. Therefor I have hundreds of
> "File does not exist:" errors in
I used mod_rewrite to map favicon.ico to a 0 byte file.
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Joe Pearson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Maybe everyone already knows this, but I just discovered that
> whenever a IE5 user visits a page in their "Favorites", IE5 also trys
> to GET favicon.ico from the same site. Therefor I
see http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/19160.html
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Joe Pearson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Maybe everyone already knows this, but I just discovered that
> whenever a IE5 user visits a page in their "Favorites", IE5 also trys
> to GET favicon.ico from the same site. The
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