Need info about the little icon in the browser address bar
Hey friends. I'm trying to track down info about the little icon that shows up in the address bar of many Web sites. Organizations that have their act together like AT&T might put their organizational logo in there which then shows up in bookmark menus and such.
We need to change it at my employer from the old logo to something else. The problem is that I don't know what it's called or even where in a Web site's code or server it's located. Can someone help me out? Thanks!
We need to change it at my employer from the old logo to something else. The problem is that I don't know what it's called or even where in a Web site's code or server it's located. Can someone help me out? Thanks!
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Hey friends. I'm trying to track down info about the little icon that shows up in the address bar of many Web sites. Organizations that have their act together like AT&T might put their organizational logo in there which then shows up in bookmark menus and such.
We need to change it at my employer from the old logo to something else. The problem is that I don't know what it's called or even where in a Web site's code or server it's located. Can someone help me out? Thanks!
favicon.ico
Should be in the root folder of the website.
Excellent. I've already changed it. Now our favicon isn't the logo from two years ago!
Now if only I could get the favicon to work properly an AI. It's in the right place ... just not doing it's thing.
Now if only I could get the favicon to work properly an AI. It's in the right place ... just not doing it's thing.
You have:
<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://www.appleinsider.com/favicon.ico">;
On my website we have:
<link rel="icon" href="flavicon.png" type="image/png">
Our icon is in the root too. But I think the icon shows on Windows machines and not on Macs. We had a lot of tries until it showed up on anything.
Thought I'd share.
EDIT: Actually, upon further review, I get the AI favicon in Internet Explorer and Firefox 2/3, but not in Safari. I tried this on both Mac OS X 10.5.1 and Windows XP SP2. Vexing problem.
EDIT: Actually, upon further review, I get the AI favicon in Internet Explorer and Firefox 2/3, but not in Safari. I tried this on both Mac OS X 10.5.1 and Windows XP SP2. Vexing problem.
Yeah, that was it. Showed (on Mac) in Firefox and Camino but not Safari.
Now it's working. Looks like audiopollution fixed it.
Hope it sticks this time.
Pretty sure it's the vB upgrades that kill it each time.
I hate to tell you this but I don't see it now. Same browser, same machine. I'm seeing the vBulletin one again.
Give it an hour or so ... we serve the forums on a crazy load-balancing system ... changes sometimes take longer than they should to propogate to the other servers.
Yeah, I see it again. Huh.
Remember when we had those crazy time-warps and threads were getting completely messed up (replies before the original post, etc.) ... that was an issue with one of the server clocks not being in sync.
The new system is great when it works.
Annoying as hell when it doesn't.