Favicon

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 4:49 pm (20 years, 10 months ago)

Can anyone see my new favicon??

http://www.fancy-rats.co.uk/

should be a little yellow rat head, but its not showing up for me Sad

its in the root directory
http://www.fancy-rats.co.uk/favicon.ico

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 5:20 pm (20 years, 10 months ago)

I don't see it either, but I also don't see anywhere in your source code where you've said where the favicon is Smile

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 5:31 pm (20 years, 9 months ago)

I was under the impression that by putting the favicon.ico at the root of the domain it would appear on all pages.

In fact according to Peter's tutorial you shouldn't use a link in the file as that doesn't comply with w3c standards.

4WH's favicon works without a <link etc >

4WebHelp Addict Joined: 07 Jan 2002 Posts: 1060

4WH doesn't have one?

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 5:43 pm (20 years, 9 months ago)

They do

http://www.4webhelp.net/favicon.ico

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 5:54 pm (20 years, 9 months ago)

Ya, but it doesn't appear in the address bar.
You need to put <link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://yoursite.com/favicon.ico" /> to make it work I believe.
It doesn't even appear in the bookmark list in moz without that I don't think. I think the link does comply with XHTML 1.0 Transitional at least.

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 6:02 pm (20 years, 9 months ago)

Been reading a bit on various sites and there are so many conflicting bits of info its ridiculous Laughing

It would appear that its handle in a different way by just about every browser.

I'm using Safari 1.0 for Mac OS X and that is happy to display it in the address bar and in the bookmarks list - apart from on my site that is.

I'll try adding the link, see what affect it has...

<EDIT>
added the link but makes no difference to me - maybe my icon is no good Sad

<EDIT2>
It shows up in IE 6 favourites!! needs a transparent background though

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

I can see your favicon when adding the page to my favourites, which is normal because IE has buggy support for favicons in the address bar. The icon looks a little wierd though - when I view it in the browser it's invisible unless it's selected. You're right about browser support, it really depends on the browser.

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 9:26 pm (20 years, 9 months ago)

IT works fine now in the King of Browsers.

BTW, if you have to ask, you should be shot. Smile

The King of browsers is Mozilla

Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2003 6:27 pm (20 years, 9 months ago)

Just put:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">

in the head and you should be fine. Just remember to make the image 16 X 16 and an .ico file. A very useful site for making your favorite icon is: http://www.cursorarts.com/ (called Icon Forge)