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Solve : How to Add a Favicon to your Site? |
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Answer» Favicon is right, but spell check don't like it. Years ago I did this and it did not always work. Here is an article that explains how. http://www.w3.org/2005/10/howto-favicon If you are diligent, you can get the browser to show a tiny icon in the ADDRESS line. Here is my question, Is the the only or best way to get the favion? (From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon#How_to_use) Use of a PNG format favicon does not seem to be supported in IE; Only a rel attribute with the value "shortcut icon" and a .ico format icon will work. Internet Explorer ignores rel="icon" completely (IE9 did last time I checked). I notice in the table that it's "not in citation given," so I looked at the citation. Microsoft's documentation PAGE doesn't explicitly say that rel="icon" is unsupported, but because it's missing from the exhaustive list including proprietary rel values while "shortcut icon" is INCLUDED, I'd say it probably isn't supported (and testing I did confirmed that a while back).I use this in my main site's index.php: CODE: [Select]<LINK rel="icon" type="image/png" href="http://bc-programming.com/favicon.png"> Works on IE8 (Win7) and IE10, Firefox (18.0.2), Chrome(25.0.1364.97), and Opera(12.14). Quote from: BC_Programmer on February 27, 2013, 06:46:32 AM I use this in my main site's index.php: I was about to wonder why it worked on your site in IE8 where the favicon I tried to use didn't. Then I saw that you also have a favicon.ico in the root of your site, which I was unable to use for my project because I didn't have access to the root of the domain. Quote from: TechnoGeek on February 27, 2013, 06:48:56 AM I was about to wonder why it worked on your site in IE8 where the favicon I tried to use didn't. Then I saw that you also have a favicon.ico in the root of your site, which I was unable to use for my project because I didn't have access to the root of the domain. I had completely forgotten about the .ico file. I bet I added it when the favicon wasn't working and I googled for why that would be. Quote from: BC_Programmer on February 27, 2013, 09:32:52 AM I had completely forgotten about the .ico file. I bet I added it when the favicon wasn't working and I googled for why that would be.Now you see why I asked. Why is it after all this years there is not clear, right documentation on a little thing? Thanks for your help. This for a family member, but still I want to do it right. |
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