Nick Bradbury: Favicon Hell: Small Feature, Big Code
Favicon Hell: Small Feature, Big Code
A couple years ago, FeedDemon started displaying favicons – you know, those little 16×16 icons that web sites use to brand themselves. It was a popular addition, because it’s much easier to tell your feeds apart when they don’t all use the same generic feed icon.
It seemed like such a simple feature at the time. Just check the root folder of the feed’s homepage for the favicon, download it if it exists, then display it in FeedDemon. No big deal, right?
This reminds me of the unicode encoding hell I ran into when I wrote an mp3 utility and found out that the ID3 tags are not neccessarily encoded UTF-8. When people create apps, like web browsers or music players, that are permissive in what they accept the inevitable result is that a mess is allowed and a mess is created.
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