[theme-reviewers] Themes and Favicons

[Chip Bennett]

Yes, and a *Plugin* is the correct way for the user to change the Favicon -
so that it isn't *Theme-dependent*.

If a user installs a Plugin to manage the site's Favicon, then the user
would expect the *Plugin* to be managing the Favicon, not the *Theme*.

Chip

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:

> I agree ... I think there are several plugins that do something similar as
> far as adding a meta tag to the header.
>
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Simon Prosser <pross at pross.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 10/19/10 20:56, Chip Bennett wrote:
>> > Right, but again, the question: should the Theme be adding a meta
>> > rel=ico tag (without asking user permission, of course)?
>> if its part of the header, then surely thats part of the theme, your
>> browser caches all small gif's png, etc.. why not cache an ico too?
>>
>> Its the browsers fault that it cant distinguish when the damn thing has
>> changed.
>>
>>
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