[Techtalk] Icon editor

[Dan Richter]

>What do you mean, IE doesn't support .png images? I didn't think IE 
>supported anything that would change their icon. The spamcop site uses a 
>.ico file, but it doesn't have any effect on my IE (5.5).

Ah, I understand now. In IE, the icon only has an affect on your bookmarks 
("favorites"). If it's a .ico file, the icon will be used as the icon in 
the "favorites" section. But in Mozilla, the icon is used in the tab 
(Mozilla has a handy "tabbed" interface), and is ignored in the bookmarks. 
(Mozilla accepts .png images too, not just .ico.) Presumably [LINK 
REL="shortcut icon"] was originally a Microsoft extension, but Mozilla 
decided to support it along with [LINK REL="icon"]. (While Microsoft and 
Netscape both have a sad history of inventing their own ridiculous 
proprietary extensions, note that the use of the LINK tag was never clearly 
defined or limited.)