Mozilla and Netscape 7 load them properly on both Mac and Windows. Safari loads them properly. Internet Explorer6 for Windows and Chimera/Camino for Mac do NOT load them properly. Rather, they ignore the code in the HTML and just jump straight to a hard coded location ("/favicon.ico") instead.
Thanks
But you lost me in your last statement about IE 6.
What I meant is that IE6 and Camino ignore the tags I posted above. They ignore the custom path you give it in the HTML. Rather, they would look for a file named "favicon.ico" at the root level of the web site.
However, if I loaded the same page in IE6 or Camino, it would never try to load that file path for the icon. Instead, it would fall into a hard-coded location "http://somesite.com/favicon.ico".
Similarly, the path I posted above for the AppleInsider site would be ignored and IE6 and Camino would instead try to find a file at "http://forums.appleinsider.com/favicon.ico".
I guess this favicon thing is almost over. As you can see above, AI is now using the black Apple logo.
I have a few observations: the favicon is done with both 16x16 and 32x32 icon sizes, my question is why? The favicon is 7782 bytes (8K) in size (when I saved it with just the 16x16 size, the size went to 1406 bytes (4K)). You can also see that in Netscape 7+, the icon is not viewable in the address bar. And lastly, in Apache, you can add the following in the http.conf file:
AddType image/x-icon .ico
This way, the icon will be see in the browser window as an icon.
...stupid question, what exactly do you mean with 'porthole'?
look at the top right... see those "speed holes"? they were called "portholes" in the t-shrirt thread at the top of GD... someone suggested that since they have been around for a year or so they should be the new logo... I dono about that, but we can vote on it...
the new "AI" in the apple one (apple"insider") looks good drew, much better then the scaled image...
Mandolux, do you mean that code will make it show up in the tab? That's cool!
Yes. You need to call it from the document. Also, when you add that http.conf command, instead of seeing that garble stuff (text, symbols, etc.), the favicon will be shown in the browser window as an icon. If you check the favicon of my server or the one from IconFactory, you will see the icon in the browser.
look at the top right... see those "speed holes"? they were called "portholes" in the t-shrirt thread at the top of GD... someone suggested that since they have been around for a year or so they should be the new logo... I dono about that, but we can vote on it...
I like that one, but, the white should be masked out as most (if not all) favicons are displayed in a text field, which has a white background...right?
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Originally posted by Brad
Add code like this between the head tags in your HTML code:
<link rel="icon" href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/images/favicon.ico"; type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/images/favicon.ico"; type="image/x-icon" />
...replacing, of course, the path with your own.
Mozilla and Netscape 7 load them properly on both Mac and Windows. Safari loads them properly. Internet Explorer6 for Windows and Chimera/Camino for Mac do NOT load them properly. Rather, they ignore the code in the HTML and just jump straight to a hard coded location ("/favicon.ico") instead.
But you lost me in your last statement about IE 6.
art jrk
sorry for seeming dense.
So, for example, if I had a tag on a page pointing to "http://somesite.com/brad/applestuff/images/mysiteicon.ico", it would load fine in the other browsers (such as Mozilla) that I listed.
However, if I loaded the same page in IE6 or Camino, it would never try to load that file path for the icon. Instead, it would fall into a hard-coded location "http://somesite.com/favicon.ico".
Similarly, the path I posted above for the AppleInsider site would be ignored and IE6 and Camino would instead try to find a file at "http://forums.appleinsider.com/favicon.ico".
Does that make bettter sense?
I got it to work.
art jrk
never to old to learn new tricks
We need to nominate one design for each genre (bee, porthole, apple, plain) and then vote on the winners...
I guess this favicon thing is almost over. As you can see above, AI is now using the black Apple logo.
I have a few observations: the favicon is done with both 16x16 and 32x32 icon sizes, my question is why? The favicon is 7782 bytes (8K) in size (when I saved it with just the 16x16 size, the size went to 1406 bytes (4K)). You can also see that in Netscape 7+, the icon is not viewable in the address bar. And lastly, in Apache, you can add the following in the http.conf file:
AddType image/x-icon .ico
This way, the icon will be see in the browser window as an icon.
Originally posted by /mandolux/
...stupid question, what exactly do you mean with 'porthole'?
look at the top right... see those "speed holes"? they were called "portholes" in the t-shrirt thread at the top of GD... someone suggested that since they have been around for a year or so they should be the new logo... I dono about that, but we can vote on it...
the new "AI" in the apple one (apple"insider") looks good drew, much better then the scaled image...
Man, Steve Jobs would get off on introducing tabbed browsing in Safari...
Anyway, I'm about favicon-ed out today.
Originally posted by drewprops
Mandolux, do you mean that code will make it show up in the tab? That's cool!
Yes. You need to call it from the document. Also, when you add that http.conf command, instead of seeing that garble stuff (text, symbols, etc.), the favicon will be shown in the browser window as an icon. If you check the favicon of my server or the one from IconFactory, you will see the icon in the browser.
Originally posted by Paul
look at the top right... see those "speed holes"? they were called "portholes" in the t-shrirt thread at the top of GD... someone suggested that since they have been around for a year or so they should be the new logo... I dono about that, but we can vote on it...
okay
The AI porthole favicon has potential too.
Originally posted by Paul
I like that one, but, the white should be masked out as most (if not all) favicons are displayed in a text field, which has a white background...right?
It's got a little halo thing going on....hmmmmmm
nope.
don't like it, can't read it.
hang on...