Using FAvicons in IE

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kendall
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Using FAvicons in IE

Post by kendall »

Hello,

I have made a favicon for the following website

http://www.brotherresistance.com

However while i see it in netscape and well someone said they saw it in mozilla. I cant see it in IE 6.
The icon is favicon.ico
The its in the root directory
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.brotherresistance.com"> is the link
the image is 16x16

The only thing is that i did not use any "icon creating" software....I just made a gif using fireworks and just changed the file name extension

would this cause it not to view in IE? its shows in Netscape

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Post by JayBird »

I know there are bugs in certain versions of IE that do not show the Fav icon in the address bars.

i am using version 6.0.2800.1106 of internet explorer and Fav icons don't work in the address bar!

Also, your code should be more like this

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<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
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Post by kendall »

Bech 100,

it still didnt work....im using IE 6.02.08.1106 or what eva.....thing is....i can see this site's favicon...i didnt even have to add it to the favorites

what gives
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Post by dave420 »

It needs to be an actual .ico file, as opposed to a .gif renamed. The files are very different internally, and it shouldn't work on any browser in its current state (you're lucky it does!)

Convert it to an ico file, and you'll be fine :)
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Post by kendall »

Dave,

Uhm.. actually i did using icon forge. Still nothing in IE at least (I.E. 6.0.28)

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Post by dave420 »

Very strange... it's working for me :)
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