Re: [cobalt-users] Todays giggle

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 4/5/00 11:50 AM, Steven Werby at steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Dom Latter <d.latter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Serious question - what is "favicon.ico" that so many browsers are looking
> for?
> 
> It's a small, square image that will display next to a site added to the
> "favorites" list in Internet Explorer and in the address bar if found in the
> directory of the bookmarked webpage.  If not found, the IE blue "e" on the
> white
> background will be displayed.  Typically, a site will use their logo.
> Bookmark
> www.yahoo.com in IE and then reload the page from the favorites list and
> you'll
> see a red "Y!".

Interesting application for this would be that you'll be able to determine
weather someone has bookmarked your site (via IE).

Also if the refering document is something like
/home/users/.netscape/bookmarks.html, you know that they are a *nix netscape
user who bookmarked your site.

-k