News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:How We Got the Favicon (2017) by Eric_WVGG on Monday August 10, 2020 @04:55PM (#24113883)
I've always been deeply annoyed by the name "favicon," which as the article notes has its roots in the "favorites" list.

No, Microsoft, when I marked this page for later, that doesn't make it my favorite. Maybe I'm researching political enemies, or have a "favorites" folder of "software companies I can't stand"

Between this and the "My Computer" icon from Windows 95, I have a deep and abiding hatred of whomever was in charge of naming things at Microsoft in the nineties.

Re:How We Got the Favicon (2017) by Lammy on Monday August 10, 2020 @07:58PM (#24115690)
C:\Documents and Settings\Lammy\
Re:How We Got the Favicon (2017) by samplatt on Monday August 10, 2020 @08:43PM (#24116016)
Yeeesss, let's just add an extra 25 characters to our user's root directory. Oh and also add capitals and spaces to it, within a system that typically hates those.
Re:How We Got the Favicon (2017) by Lammy on Monday August 10, 2020 @10:18PM (#24116563)
My totally baseless assumption is that it was a cute passive way to force developers to properly support UNC Paths of all types by making something as essential as %USERPROFILE% include spaces and intentionally break all the eight-dot-three conventions.