It would be nice to see the favicon of a url in front of the wiki link instead of the small symbol, e.g.
"WiesoWikiFunktioniert"
This makes it easier to see from which site a link is embedded.
I am not sure if I understood you correctly. Do you suppose icons for Interwiki names or do you want to set favicons for pages within a MoinMoin wiki or do you want to set a favicon for whole MoinMoin wikis?
I think icons for interwiki names is enough, because the information about have to be stored somewhere. If I use EmbedWikiPage all WikiName should be connected to their external expression. I think it is useful to see where they are connected too. Perhaps this is a special case of interconnectivity.
Its can be nice, but since most favicons are too small to be readable, and since some of them might clash with moinmoin own icons, it can be usability problem. I prefer one icon for interwiki, and not many confusing icons.
All favicons we see at the moment are big enough to destinguish the browser windows. The problem I see is the bad ico format which is not supported on all browsers. A function which translates the ico to png as a base64 string in memory and embeds this directly with img src='data:image/png;base64, STRING could be helpful.
What if a wiki favicon will collide with one of our icons? like file attachments, or maybe the info icon (http://wikinfo.org). I think we should invest our time in more important things. If we like better interfave, then the first thing to do is design one consistent set of icons, instead of the current icons.
The interesting question is: which wikis DO provide a favicon (MoinMoin doesn't)? Without icons this feature is more or less useless.
My understanding is that every wiki on a site must share the same favicon: the site-wide favicon (right?) more information about favicon
- Yes. Use Apache to work around it.
Implementation Ideas
Retrive Favicons
We could try to download the favicon for an external wiki and if it exists we could add the links.
- Caching!
- we could download the favicons
and perhaps allow the InterWiki name as icon {MeatBall}
- no preconfiguration needed!
Extend InterWikiMap
we could download the favicons and ship them with the MoinMoin distribution
the mapping InterWiki name -> icon would be set in the configuration (perhaps the InterWikiMap)
See discussion in MoinMoinBugs/favicon.ico