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Using FAvicons in IE

Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 8:22 am
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

KEndall

Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 8:33 am
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">
Mark

Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 11:35 am
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
Kendall

Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 8:57 am
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 :)

Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 10:12 am
by kendall
Dave,

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

Kendall

Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 10:00 am
by dave420
Very strange... it's working for me :)