Re: favicon

On Fri, 14 May 2004 14:38:32 +0200, iwa-hwg <iwa-hwg(at)tiram.org> wrote:

>> <link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" 
>> href="http://www.graveyard-graphics.com/favicon.ico">
>> <link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="favicon.ico">
>> works with Netscape 7.1 but not in netscape 4.1
>
> Relative or absolute URL shouldn't matter. You could try adding "type", 
> like this:
>
> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
>
> But I doubt it'd make much difference in IE. Your favicon is placed in 
> root too, it appears -- so it can't be that. The above code works 
> perfectly in Opera, Mozilla and Netscape. It must be IE that is mucking 
> it up. A setting somewhere?

On further googling: IE will only show the favicon if the page is 
_bookmarked_, ref:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/4366.htm

Tested it with <www.opera.com> and the above link and it seems to work.

M :)
-- 
Marit Halse
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