Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 07/08/06 03:16

Dinsdale wrote:
> Jonathan:
>
> Adding a forward slash didn't fix it. I even checked the code provided
> to me by the site that generated the favicon.ico itself.
>
> I also ran a favicon validator service I found here:
>
> http://www.htmlkit.com/go/favicon/validator/
>
> And it passed validation.
>
> But what I've just noticed is, the actual favicon is 32x32. That's
> what gets generated when you upload your image file here:
>
> http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
>
> They give you a 16x16 animated version (don't want to use that!), and a
> 16x16 PNG format as a preview.
>
> But no 16x16 .ico file.
>
> So, let's figure out how to get a static 16x16 .ico file produced.
> What's behind this file conversion process, anyway? It's not actually
> disguised as a bitmap format, I already tried.
>
>

Actually it is a dual format ICO with 1 16x16@256-color and 1
32x32@256-color icon. I have a icon editor, Google for one, there are
many free ones out there or you can use the freeware IrfanView
(www.irfanview.com) to convert a 16x16 BMP to ICO.

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Take care,

Jonathan
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