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Re: [wwwdocs] favicon.ico for gcc.gnu.org?
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- To: Kelley Cook <kelley dot r dot cook at gm dot com>
- Cc: Roger Sayle <roger at eyesopen dot com>, <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 22:50:48 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: [wwwdocs] favicon.ico for gcc.gnu.org?
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Kelley Cook wrote:
> Actually, the magic-filename of "favicon.ico" has been depreciated due
> to so many ISPs complaining about a gazillon 404s on non-existant
> favicons.
Good point!
> On the plus side, you can leave the filename as favicon.ico, and this
> simple patch will implement it the correct way.
Committed, thanks.
> The only question for you to decide is if to always have it point to
> http://gcc.gnu.org or use a relative URL in which case, since I'm not
> exactly sure how the webpage mirrors operate, you may have to move
> favicon.ico to a different directory at which point you might as well
> also rename it to gcc.ico.
I went with the absolute link for now, because relative links are quite
tricky, considering that our web site has several levels, and starts at
/ in the case of gcc.gnu.org and /software/gcc in the case of www.gnu.org.
Gerald
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