Re: Favicon support
Ricardo Fernández Pascual <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.galeon.devel |
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El mar, 12-11-2002 a las 15:06, Lee Willis escribió: > I was going to raise this through bugzilla, but it appears to be down so > here we go ... > > I've noticed that favicon support in galeon2 is less than ideal > (IMHO). The attached patch seems to make it more intuitive for me in a > lot of cases, but I know it has issues: > > The patch does two things: > > (1) Treats HTTPS URIs as HTTP for the purpose of favicon matching I think this is ok, but I know very little about favicons. > (2) Recurses up the URI until it reaches the hostname to work out > whether a favicon is available, ie http://www.foo.com/dir1/page2.htm > will use the favicon for http://www.foo.com AFAIK this breaks the spec, thus it is not acceptable. > > The problems I know we have are: > > (1) 1 is a bodge > (2) I don't think this (2) delivers the "Standard behaviour" but it works > for most sites better than the shipped behaviour Exactly. We want to follow the standard. If the site is broken it can be fixed. > (3) We don't support simply having www.url.here/favicon.ico present as > far as I can tell. Not implemented. I don't think it should be implemented because there is a good standard way to do this. Anyway, I don't have a strong opinion. -- Ricardo Fernández Pascual [email protected] Murcia. España. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf