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I'm pretty sure browsers are gonna request /favicon.ico anyway.

• pests 5y ago
  Browsers gotta browse. They can request but you don't have to respond.
• abathur 5y ago
  It vexes me (though, not as much as the apple variants). The date the last ~active browser stops requesting favicon.ico if one was already inlined would make a good betting pool.
  • pests 5y ago
    Eh, its probably never going to happen. I'm sure less than 1% of sites would serve a favicon via data uri not to mention racing the favicon along with the domain on first visits speeds up the process. Favicons are already transferred a lot. Back in the day having notifications / unread counts in the favicon itself was very common. It would show up in the tab bar and also the bookmark icon so it was a quick micro-communication channel with a website before all the modern things.