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Convert favicon.png to favicon.ico #594
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Converting favicon to .ico is good for a browser not supporting images other than .ico, say IE. However, simply removing a line specifying the icon URL may be harmful because now the icon URL refers Certainly we can add the line to the |
Well, I don't mean that it's better to remove the default icon, but it's wrong to expect that they will always publish their content to a top directory. |
@omasanori I understand that I don't understand this:
What does this mean? |
@xuhdev I'm sorry. I'll explain it more. For example, anyone want to publish Octopress content to www.example.com/blog (actually I'm doing, so I think it's not a silly example). He may find Once he understand that While Does it make sense? |
You mean there will be a backward compatibility issue, right? On Jun 4, 2012, at 22:07, OGINO Masanorireply@reply.github.com wrote:
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Yes, but it's not all. It is a confusing difference between common expectation ("Ah, there is a favicon. I see.") and actual behavior (it will be used if you publish to / but otherwise it will be ignored). Well, some people won't be confused because they have confirmed that there is no However, I'm talking about the others like me :) |
For user customized icon url, we could convert the current
favicon.png
tofavicon.ico
, and remove this line.The reason is simple: if there is a
/favicon.ico
, we do not need to specify the icon URL, since this is the default. If user want to use their own customized favicon URL, they could add the code to the_custom/head.html
.This is somewhat a solution of #483.
What do you think of this? If you need me to do this, I could turn this into a pull request.
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