Re:Inventing Favicon.ico
by samspenc on Sunday March 29, 2015 @09:06PM
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Isn't the best solution to the problem this: browsers turn off automatic checks for /favicon.ico and only load the favicon if it exists in the HTML in the form of the official spec?
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Yes, that would be the perfect solution to this problem. No sarcasm. Unfortunately, I don't see it happening. Probably millions of sites now that don't have the <link> tags, and you'd have a torrent of complaints as a browser vendor if you tried this.