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favicon doesn't work in IE6 vex 10-08-2006
Posted by vex on October 8, 2006, 11:48 pm
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I have created a favicon.ico in the root directory with the necessary;
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" >
code in the HEAD, and it works in Firefox, but not IE6. What's the
problem, why not IE6? Do favicons work reliably in IE7 RC1?

Posted by Rob ^_^ on October 9, 2006, 12:56 am
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Hi vex,

I imagine this is on an XP machine. There is also IE6 SP1 for non XP
machines. The display of favicons in IE7 is on the watch list on the IE7
blog as there are reported issues with retaining favorite and links icons.
You will see previous posts here on how to stop your favorite icon from
changing, but this may not be the issue for you.

What web authoring tool are you using? FrontPage or.... Check whether you
are using relative or absoute urls.
Maybe hardcode your shortcut icon meta-tag with an absolute url. eg
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.mywebsite.com/favicon.ico" >
FF and IE probably use different URI algorithms to resolve the absolute url
to the favicon.ico file.

If you are using a frames page for your web start, the shortcut icon
meta-tag must be in that page, not in any sub-frame pages.

Add you web start page to your Favorites, then navigate to that Favorites
folder using the Windows Explorer and open the shortcut (.url file) (I have
notepad in my Send to folder so I can just right click on a favorite link
and select the Send to Notepad option to view its contents.)
It should have something like this in it
IconFile=http://mywebsite.com/favicon.ico
IconIndex=1

Lastly make sure you have IE7 RC1 and not Beta 2. I hope that gives you an
answer but as I said, favicon behaviour still has outstanding issues that
are being addressed.

Regards.


>I have created a favicon.ico in the root directory with the necessary;
> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" >
> code in the HEAD, and it works in Firefox, but not IE6. What's the
> problem, why not IE6? Do favicons work reliably in IE7 RC1?



Posted by Steve Pugh on October 9, 2006, 8:29 am
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vex@hex.spam wrote:
> I have created a favicon.ico in the root directory with the necessary;
> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" >
> code in the HEAD, and it works in Firefox, but not IE6. What's the
> problem, why not IE6? Do favicons work reliably in IE7 RC1?

IE only shows favicons when the page is bookmarked.

Other browsers show them whenever the page is displayed.

Steve


Posted by axlq on October 9, 2006, 1:49 pm
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>I have created a favicon.ico in the root directory with the necessary;
><link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" >

You may want to put the whole path in there, and include a type:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://example.com/favicon.ico"
type="image/x-icon">

Even so, I have observed unpredictable behavior in Opera and IE
regarding favicons. Sometimes they display, sometimes not. And I
don't bookmark things either.

-A

Posted by vex on October 9, 2006, 6:29 pm
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On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 17:49:16 +0000 (UTC), axlq@spamcop.net (axlq)
wrote:

>>I have created a favicon.ico in the root directory with the necessary;
>><link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" >
>
>You may want to put the whole path in there, and include a type:
>
><link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://example.com/favicon.ico"
type="image/x-icon">
>
>Even so, I have observed unpredictable behavior in Opera and IE
>regarding favicons. Sometimes they display, sometimes not. And I
>don't bookmark things either.
>
>-A

Putting an absolute path and type doesn't work either, in IE6. Let's
hope they get it working in IE7.

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