Re: Decisions on Bugs

[Christian Persch <chpe stud uni-saarland de>]

Hi,

On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 17:50, David Adam Bordoley wrote:
> Christian Persch writes:
> > 
> > Some info about IE favicon support from
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/Author/dhtml/howto/ShortcutIcon.asp :
> > - it does support the <link> thing (although with a non-standard rel
> > attribute, "SHORTCUT ICON" instead of "ICON". gecko understands both
> > variants)
> > - it only _displays_ the favicon in the address bar [and bookmarks menu]
> > when the user has bookmarked the page
> 
> I was unaware of this. In this case can we at least follow the IE behavior 
> and fetch the icon if the site is bookmarked as a fallback? 

That's a privacy violation since it leaks the information to the site
that you have bookmarked it. Therefore I'm against this.

Regards,
	Christian