Right, but again, the question: should the Theme be adding a meta rel=ico tag (without asking user permission, of course)?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Otto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">2010/10/19 Chip Bennett <<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net">chip@chipbennett.net</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> Well, if that's the case, then there's less to worry about.<br>
> However, I do know that *some* Themes are modifying favicon.ico, because on<br>
> a clean WP install, it has been changed. :)<br>
> I guess my underlying question is: does a Theme have any business changing<br>
> the favicon? It's rather like changing a Site Name, or Description - or even<br>
> a user's Gravatar/Avatar. The favicon is unique to the site/owner, not to<br>
> the site Theme.<br>
> That's really what I was getting at...<br>
<br>
</div>Are you sure the theme isn't just inserting the favicon meta info into the head?<br>
<br>
A theme has no business modifying files outside of the theme directory<br>
(with the possible exception of the uploads directory, for themes that<br>
allow file uploads of various sorts), however the more usual way of<br>
modifying a favicon is to add meta rel=icon tags into the head section<br>
of the HTML. This strikes me as fine, being that core has no real<br>
support for it as such.<br>
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-Otto<br>
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