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This is absolutely mortifying, how much metadata do pages have to share with browsers to do that one weirdly specific thing!?

• krapp 7y ago
  What weirdly specific thing? You don't have to put anything in a head tag, you don't even need a head tag, but it's a good idea to have one and to at least add a charset meta tag. Everything is optional, though. The entire point of it is for you to share metadata about your page with the browser.
  • munk-a 7y ago
    My favorite weird thing that happens without certain <head> tags is the ten billion attempts to get a favicon. I don't know if browsers still try all those silly favicon requests if none is defined, but it was saddening to watch that grow to be wide spread previously.
    • shakna 7y ago
      Yes, they all still issue several favicon requests, so far as I'm aware. Having one, instead of returning a 404, can speed up the page load. Which makes 0 sense.
      • dyanaraps 7y ago
        This is how I avoid this issue entirely: <link href=data:, rel=icon> This is the smallest possible "null" favicon. It causes the browser to display nothing and ensures 0 HTTP requests for the favicon!
        • SquareWheel 7y ago
          Does the browser display the generic "no favicon" icon, or is it just completely blank? I like the idea.
          • dyanaraps 7y ago
            It's completely blank (tested in Firefox and Chromium).
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