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Posted by Crom on November 14, 2004, 5:58 pm
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Ok. I want to settle this once and for all. After looking at the source
for various, rather sizeable (but not all were so big) web sites that
use icons that show up in the addressbar beside the address itself.
Just about all websites that use said icons use one of these two methods
(some use both even) to make them appear (in the code of a webpage.) :
<LINK REL="icon" HREF="/icon.ico" TYPE="image/ico">
<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="/icon.ico">
My question is this. Is one of these methods more correct (or standard)
? Is it better to use both, or jsut one of these? Is there maybe another
method??
Thank you.
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Posted by Philipp Lenssen on November 15, 2004, 10:16 am
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Crom wrote:
> <LINK REL="icon" HREF="/icon.ico" TYPE="image/ico">
> <LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="/icon.ico">
>
> My question is this. Is one of these methods more correct (or
> standard) ? Is it better to use both, or jsut one of these? Is there
> maybe another method??
>
Yes, another method (and the one I prefer, mainly because it's easy,
and also suppresses the icon to appear in file-not-found top ten lists)
is to create an icon called "favicon.ico" and place it in the server
root folder.
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Posted by Daniel R. Tobias on November 15, 2004, 11:49 am
Please log in for more thread options > Yes, another method (and the one I prefer, mainly because it's easy,
> and also suppresses the icon to appear in file-not-found top ten lists)
> is to create an icon called "favicon.ico" and place it in the server
> root folder.
Most versions of Mozilla won't display icons unless they're explicitly linked.
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Dan
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Posted by Stan Brown on November 15, 2004, 4:05 pm
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>> Yes, another method (and the one I prefer, mainly because it's easy,
>> and also suppresses the icon to appear in file-not-found top ten lists)
>> is to create an icon called "favicon.ico" and place it in the server
>> root folder.
>
>Most versions of Mozilla won't display icons unless they're explicitly linked.
IMHO a better way to phrase that is "Most versions of Mozilla don't
go out asking the server for resources that the page author didn't
think were necessary."
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http://OakRoadSystems.com/
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validator: http://validator.w3.org/
CSS 2.1 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/
validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
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Posted by David Ross on November 15, 2004, 5:13 pm
Please log in for more thread options Philipp Lenssen wrote:
>
> Crom wrote:
>
> > <LINK REL="icon" HREF="/icon.ico" TYPE="image/ico">
> > <LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="/icon.ico">
> >
> > My question is this. Is one of these methods more correct (or
> > standard) ? Is it better to use both, or jsut one of these? Is there
> > maybe another method??
> >
>
> Yes, another method (and the one I prefer, mainly because it's easy,
> and also suppresses the icon to appear in file-not-found top ten lists)
> is to create an icon called "favicon.ico" and place it in the server
> root folder.
Requiring the icon to be named favicon.ico limits the Web site to
only one such icon. I use the LINK method because I use five
different icons, choosing one per Web page according to that page's
topic. However, on the Web server (UNIX-based), I created a
soft-link named favicon.ico pointing to my most used icon file for
those who are stuck using IE.
With Mozilla, either version of the LINK seems to work equally
well. I use both in my Web pages.
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David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>
I use Mozilla as my Web browser because I want a browser that
complies with Web standards. See <http://www.mozilla.org/>.
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