[pendragon]

I recently noticed that some favicons are not present in Tiger, yet they appear normally in Panther. An example of a favicon that works in Panther, but not in Tiger: http://my.yahoo.com/

So when I passed the local Apple store yesterday I stopped in to see if this same condition existed on their machines. Sure 'nuf, it does. Being a Saturday, the store was packed, so I did not have an opportunity to talk with the Genius.

To see if I could put things to right, I did the following:

• flushed: ~/Library/Caches folder/Safari/(00-15)
• flushed: ~/Library/Safari/Icons(00-15)
• ran the full Cocktail suite of cache cleaners
• Repaired Permissions
• fsck'd
• Safe Booted

But I remain curious. Does this anomaly exist with every Tiger machine or is it just with the few I happened to test (touch), and what is the cause of such a condition?

I suspect something gets easily corrupted, but I haven't a clue what that might be.

For my Tiger install on a DP 800, I did the Archive & Install. I don't know how Apple did it.

At this point, guesses are encouraged.

[Krypton]

Dave Hyatt acknowledged this after Mike Pinkerton (of Camino) bugged him about it.

[pendragon]

Originally Posted by Krypton

Dave Hyatt acknowledged this after Mike Pinkerton (of Camino) bugged him about it.

Thanks Krypton.

Your insight helped relieve a small anxiety of mine. It also prompted me to learn of Dave Hyatt and Mike Pinkerton. Alas, ignorance abounds.

I never did find the reference where Dave Hyatt acknowledges this Safari 2.0 "condition", but still, I am pleased to have learned a bit.

Do you think this is one of the issues that will be addressed in 10.4.1, or is this matter of too little significance?

[Krypton]

From: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/pinkerton/

The conversation with hyatt went like this:

Me: Dang, something in Tiger broke some Camino favicons.
Hyatt: Really? How do you know?
Me: Well if you download the favicon and look at it in Preview, it no longer works. We filed the bug on NSImage.
Hyatt: We still use NSImage for favicons in Safari. What's a url?
Me: www.yahoo.com
Hyatt: OMG, you're right. This doesn't work in Safari either.

So when you see 10.4.1 to fix favicons in Safari, you'll know why. It's radar 4102776

They are good friends having both started out at Netscape and thus AOL also.

[pendragon]

Ah, you professionals always make it look easy.

Thanks again, for your time and your expertise. It is truly appreciated.

And best of weekend cheers!