<div>Theme Developers who don't want to mess with the site's Favicon aren't burdened in any way whatsoever. I don't see a problem with requiring a certain implementation of an optional feature.</div><div><br>
</div><div>The reason I think it should be *required* to provide a user configuration setting is, as I've already stated, because the Favicon is part of the <i>site identity/branding</i>, and not part of the <i>Theme</i>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I ran into one Theme just this week that changed the Site Title. The default setting was the Theme Name. Even though this scenario isn't explicitly addressed by the Guidelines, I still required that the Theme Developer change the default setting to bloginfo( 'title' ) - because users will (and should) not expect the title displayed in the site header to be the Theme Name - or anything other than what they define as Site Title.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I see the Favicon as incredibly analogous. For users who configure a favicon.ico, they should not have to worry about the Theme changing it without their permission.</div><div><br></div><div>Chip</div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Austin Matzko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:austin@pressedcode.com">austin@pressedcode.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Chip Bennett <<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net">chip@chipbennett.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> it is<br>
> *required* to provide a user configuration setting, disabled by default<br>
<br>
</div>Why should it be required? There are already so many rules; why<br>
burden developers with more?<br>
<br>
This mandatory option goes against the WordPress philosophy of not<br>
having excess options. Also, WPMU once came with default favicon, and<br>
there wasn't any such option (that I remember).<br>
<br>
Perhaps you could recommend that there be a way to change the favicon,<br>
either by option or filter.<br>
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