Re: [cobalt-users] Todays giggle

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 4/6/00 6:53 AM, Dom Latter at d.latter@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Gordon wrote:
>> 
>>> Serious question - what is "favicon.ico" that so many browsers are looking
>>> for?
>> 
>> internet explorer looks for it and if found, uses it if the user bookmarks
>> the page as a small side icon (fav=favorites) it's in windows icon format
>> so you need a windows icon editer to make it , gotta love standards ;0
> 
> Many thanks for all the replies.
> 
> I'm now tempted to stick a 2MB core dump called favicon.ico in the
> root and have a banner saying "this site optimised for anything but
> IE5"....

While that sounds *very* entertaining, If I am not mistaken the favicon.ico
has a size limitation of like 64 bytes or something really tiny.

-k