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I've always been deeply annoyed by the name "favicon," which as the article notes has its roots in the "favorites" list. No, Microsoft, when I marked this page
by Eric_WVGG 6y ago
I've always been deeply annoyed by the name "favicon," which as the article notes has its roots in the "favorites" list.
No, Microsoft, when I marked this page for later, that doesn't make it my favorite. Maybe I'm researching political enemies, or have a "favorites" folder of "software companies I can't stand"
Between this and the "My Computer" icon from Windows 95, I have a deep and abiding hatred of whomever was in charge of naming things at Microsoft in the nineties.
- Lammy 6y agoC:\Documents and Settings\Lammy\
- samplatt 6y agoYeeesss, let's just add an extra 25 characters to our user's root directory. Oh and also add capitals and spaces to it, within a system that typically hates those.
- Lammy 6y agoMy totally baseless assumption is that it was a cute passive way to force developers to properly support UNC Paths of all types by making something as essential as %USERPROFILE% include spaces and intentionally break all the eight-dot-three conventions.