[Wylug-discuss] a webdesign query / mini rant

[Dave Fisher]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 10:01:23AM +0000, Dave Fisher wrote:
>   <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">

Oops, bad copy and paste error.

As Steve Garton pointed out, that should have been something like:

  <link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/rebs.ico" type="image/x-icon">

The mime type attribute should matter, but is frequently lacking from
elements which it aught to be declared on.

N.B. I have not included the XHTML closing slash, because HTML 4.01 is
typically easier to implement in a standards compliant way (serving
XHTML to IE and ensuring that it goes into standards mode, requires a
bit of rule-bending and some proxy risk re DOCTYPE and mime type
declaration).

Dave