random web question

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:57 pm

IE doesnt display .ico as an image, which is why I used .jpg since the forum doesnt like bmps either. save .ico to your desktop in windows and it'll show it as a normal icon file, which is what I'm guessing favicon for the web thingy uses as well.

of course, I am not even sure where this .ico is supposed to appear. My bookmarks are all normal IE ones, even for sites im pretty sure have a custom icon.

Post by **Jonathan** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 11:04 pm

It shows up in my location bar by the http://. But only sometimes.

Post by **Jonathan** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 11:06 pm

And it completely fails to show up in my bookmarks when I make a new mohtalim bookmark. Eh.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 11:35 pm

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<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" TYPE="image/x-icon">

put something like that into the main page for the site...

George · Post by **George** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 11:40 pm

It works for me in Firefox 1.0. I had to delete my bookmark, create a new bookmark, and then use the new bookmark to get to the page before it showed up.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 11:43 pm

It sorta works for me, but only puts the icon next to the url in the url entry bar thingy (<--technical computer term)...

Peijen · Post by **Peijen** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 2:21 am

quantus wrote:thingy (<--technical computer term)...

hahaha, yes. I remember my post from few months (year) back about this exact subject.

George · Post by **George** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 2:04 pm

quantus wrote:It sorta works for me, but only puts the icon next to the url in the url entry bar thingy (<--technical computer term)...

Um, that's what it's supposed to do, unless you mean it doesn't show up on your bookmark.

Post by **Jonathan** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 6:22 pm

After futzing, it does show up in my bookmark.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 10:17 pm

I dont get to see anything!

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 12:56 am

George wrote:
quantus wrote:It sorta works for me, but only puts the icon next to the url in the url entry bar thingy (<--technical computer term)...
Um, that's what it's supposed to do, unless you mean it doesn't show up on your bookmark.

I think it's supposed to show up on the tabs as well (if you use firefox), but it's not...

George · Post by **George** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 4:03 pm

Ah, I never use tabs, but my brief investigation shows Joe is less wrong than usual. CNN's icon shows up on the tab, but Mohtalim's does not. This is clearly somehow Joe's fault.

Peijen · Post by **Peijen** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 5:43 pm

the icon shows up in the address bar, book mark, and tab for me in firefox. doesn't work in IE at work though.

Post by **Jonathan** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 6:04 pm

I blame Dave's bastard iconization. Visual inspection says to me that the tab icon and the location bar icon are different sizes.

Post by **Jonathan** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 6:04 pm

but what the hell do i know. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 2:09 pm

yea, I havent seen it at all in IE.

George · Post by **George** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 2:50 pm

Does IE even support it? I just tried CNN (my benchmark for all things icon related), and it doesn't show up on my work copy of IE. I think NG may have tweaked the deployed copies of IE, though I can't imagine why they would disable icon changes.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 4:40 pm

IE used to, I remember seeing google, cnn, and a few others, in both bookmarks and address menu, but now I don't... probably had some sercurity thing, where you can hide viruses in image files! yea!

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:47 am

I'm gonna start putting favicon's on webpages at work... Let's see if anyone notices.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:53 am

awesome, you can even use animated gifs!!