Needless to say, you were absolutely right about it too. There are obvious security implications (what if someone puts the image of a padlock there? do we reall

Needless to say, you were absolutely right about it too. There are obvious security implications (what if someone puts the image of a padlock there? do we really need another image file format?) but also oddities like making the web root responsible for icons throughout the web tree (as shared hosts was common at the time). Even a junior dev should have seen those coming.