Favicons not inlined, seems intentional

[rgaudy]

I'm using Vite to compile "front-end without a back-end", that is a standalone HTML page with all its assets inlined.

However the favicon (<link href="icon"... />) is not inlined, and this seems intentional.

I can circumvent the problem (import the image through JS and append a link element manually) but this behaviour is not intuitive at all and undocumented as far I can tell. Plus, the comment in the code does not explain the rationale behind it (and seems outdated?).

Link to reproduce. Ctrl-C in the console, vite build and then look at dist/index.html

[sapphi-red]

The rationale is written in #14958

Icons are low-priority-fetched by browsers, so they should be links. Otherwise user would always fetch them because it's inlined.