What is this web site trying to do?

[Alan M. Evans]

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 18:28 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Frank Cox wrote:
> > Many web browsers (including Firefox) automatically look for and download a
> > [favicon.ico]
> I use Mozilla, and I see nothing like what you describe.

FWIW, Firefox (and probably Mozilla) won't ask for a favicon if the HTML
header on the page specifies an icon explicitly. ( see source of
http://alanevans.org/ )