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IE 6 and favicons Thom Brando 05-11-2005
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Posted by Grant Smith - eNVENT Technolog on May 15, 2005, 9:09 pm
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Thom Brando wrote:
>
>
>>Thom Brando wrote:
>>
>>>alleged to have written:
>>>
>>>
>>>>IE only displays the favicon after the site is bookmarked.
>>>
>>>Hmmmmm... they don't seem to be working for me, even when I bookmark a page.
>>
>>Post a URL.
>
>
> Unfortunately, I cannot. I'm working on a corporate intranet and don't have
> access to the document root of a server outside the firewall.
>
> Since my last posting, I have found that IE will show the favicon from
> www.comcast.net (after I've bookmarked the page). I downloaded /favicon.ico
> from this site, opened it with Visual Studio 2003, and found it contained a
> single, 16-color, 16 x 16 image. And yet, when I generate an icon file with
> a single, 16-color, 16 x 16 image in it, IE doesn't show it (even after I
> bookmark my server)!
>
> If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be happy to try them. Otherwise, I'm
> ready to give up.
>
> Thom
>
Try deleting your bookmark and clearing your cache and history. Then, go
back to the site and bookmark it again. It /should/ show after that.

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Grant Smith
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Posted by Thom Brando on May 15, 2005, 5:43 pm
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On 5/15/05 4:09 PM, "Grant Smith - eNVENT Technologies"

> Thom Brando wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Thom Brando wrote:
>>>
>>>> alleged to have written:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> IE only displays the favicon after the site is bookmarked.
>>>>
>>>> Hmmmmm... they don't seem to be working for me, even when I bookmark a
>>>> page.
>>>
>>> Post a URL.
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately, I cannot. I'm working on a corporate intranet and don't have
>> access to the document root of a server outside the firewall.
>>
>> Since my last posting, I have found that IE will show the favicon from
>> www.comcast.net (after I've bookmarked the page). I downloaded /favicon.ico
>> from this site, opened it with Visual Studio 2003, and found it contained a
>> single, 16-color, 16 x 16 image. And yet, when I generate an icon file with
>> a single, 16-color, 16 x 16 image in it, IE doesn't show it (even after I
>> bookmark my server)!
>>
>> If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be happy to try them. Otherwise, I'm
>> ready to give up.
>>
>> Thom
>>
> Try deleting your bookmark and clearing your cache and history. Then, go
> back to the site and bookmark it again. It /should/ show after that.

No go. I deleted my bookmark, cleared my cache and history, quit IE,
restarted IE, visited the site, bookmarked the site, and I still don't see
the favicon. If I visit the url of the favicon, I see it in the browser's
document area, but I never see it in the address bar or on the Favorites
menu.


Posted by Adrienne on May 16, 2005, 7:37 am
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>> Try deleting your bookmark and clearing your cache and history. Then,
>> go back to the site and bookmark it again. It /should/ show after
>> that.
>
> No go. I deleted my bookmark, cleared my cache and history, quit IE,
> restarted IE, visited the site, bookmarked the site, and I still don't
> see the favicon. If I visit the url of the favicon, I see it in the
> browser's document area, but I never see it in the address bar or on
> the Favorites menu.
>

Are you sure it is a true icon file and not a file named .ico?

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Adrienne Boswell
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Posted by Thom Brando on May 16, 2005, 11:30 am
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written:

>
>>> Try deleting your bookmark and clearing your cache and history. Then,
>>> go back to the site and bookmark it again. It /should/ show after
>>> that.
>>
>> No go. I deleted my bookmark, cleared my cache and history, quit IE,
>> restarted IE, visited the site, bookmarked the site, and I still don't
>> see the favicon. If I visit the url of the favicon, I see it in the
>> browser's document area, but I never see it in the address bar or on
>> the Favorites menu.
>>
>
> Are you sure it is a true icon file and not a file named .ico?

Yes. I created it with Visual Studio 2003.


Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on May 16, 2005, 3:45 pm
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Thom Brando wrote:
> Yes. I created it with Visual Studio 2003.

Since other favicons work for you, and your own doesn't, it is only
logical to assume that the one you created is not a true icon file.

I don't think we can help any more until you post it somewhere and we
can examine it. Does your personal ISP have web space?

Try creating your icon with the free program Irfanview.
http://irfanview.com/

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-bts
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