How We Got the Favicon (2017)

Re:How We Got the Favicon (2017) by neilv on Monday August 10, 2020 @12:10PM (#24110786)

Early on, it was a race between the browsers to differentiate themselves with proprietary extensions, and to be "this site best viewed with ___" (a very common saying on Web pages, and sometimes with image badges provided by the browser vendor).

W3C reined that in, and the W3C staff people are the real deal. Though eventually big browser vendors were able to push through whatever they wanted, maybe sometimes sabotage things they don't like (e.g, HTML5 Offline mechanisms competing with browser vendor's app store), etc.

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Re:How We Got the Favicon (2017) by reaperducer on Monday August 10, 2020 @01:19PM (#24111637)

"this site best viewed with ___"

Amazingly, this still happens today.

I run into it occasionally. Most recently over the weekend on a county voter registration web site which stated that Internet Explorer was "required."

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Re:How We Got the Favicon (2017) by gen220 on Monday August 10, 2020 @02:21PM (#24112338)

When you call $company support about anything related to their web applicaations, one of the first questions they're instructed to ask is "what browser are you using? X? Have you tried using Chrome instead?"

9/10 (maybe 99/100) times, the issue has nothing to do with the browser, but these questions have a strong normalizing effect. Even if the browser has nothing to do with it, people who don't know better will stick to Chrome, "just to be safe".

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Re:How We Got the Favicon (2017) by TeMPOraL on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @02:10AM (#24117598)

I see it often too, and most of the time, that sentence ends with Chrome. Chrome is truly the IE of our era.

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