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The simplified explanation is that they are cheap marketing. You use your
website logo as your favicon and it shows up in the browser (and in the case
of M$ OS on the desktop) when you save the URL in some way. It's a way of
providing brand recognition. "Now where is that bookmark for
DoItYourself.com? Oh yeah, it's the one with the house for an icon."
Eugene
plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org <> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:20:56PM -0500, Jon Nelson wrote:
>> I've been trying to get this to work with limited results. Here is
>> what I have currently have in my page:
>
> I have seen these little icons starting to proliferate, but I don't
> understand why. Mozilla (your icon works for me, Jon) suggests I
> drag and drop the icon to create a bookmark. But dropping it
> doesn't do anything on mozilla browser, emacs, nautilus desktop, or
> nautilus directory (folder) windows.
>
> Making bookmarks has never seemed to me like a complicated task that
> warranted server-side support.
>
> What problem do these things solve?
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