Again missing my point:<div><br></div><div>The favicon is <i>not part of the Theme</i>. It is part of the <i>site/owner's identity/branding</i>. IMHO, it is analogous to changing the Site Title, or Site Description, or a Gravatar.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Why should a Theme be messing with a site's favicon, without user permission?</div><div><br></div><div>Chip</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Simon Prosser <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pross@pross.org.uk">pross@pross.org.uk</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 10/19/10 20:56, Chip Bennett wrote:<br>
> Right, but again, the question: should the Theme be adding a meta<br>
> rel=ico tag (without asking user permission, of course)?<br>
</div>if its part of the header, then surely thats part of the theme, your<br>
browser caches all small gif's png, etc.. why not cache an ico too?<br>
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Its the browsers fault that it cant distinguish when the damn thing has<br>
changed.<br>
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