Re: Favicons

O, you can also get information about making a favicon.ico at the site
http://www.favicons.com/ where they sell a utility (I haven't tried it) and
have a free online icon maker, which works ok for a simple style..
Pam Shorey

----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin H." <justinh(at)whidbey.net>
To: "HWG Basics" <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: Favicons


> A short note about favicon.ico.
>
> Mozilla (the open source basis for Netscape 6) has added support for the
> favicon....and then some.
>
> If your webpage has a tag:
>
> <.link rel="icon" href="icon/href/here.png" type="image/png">
>
> it will use that as your bookmark icon.  I'm not sure how many types of
> images they support, but I'd assume that you can use jpeg, gif, png, or
> ico at the very least.  If you don't have a link tag, it'll look in the
> webpage directory and the root directory for the favicon.ico file.
>
> It's new code, so they still have some persistence issues, but it's
> there and it works.
>
> As always, YMMV.
>
> Justin H.
>
> Thomas Rumley wrote:
> >
> > Hi O!
>
>

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