Posted by Dinsdale on 07/08/06 04:53

OK, back to square one.

So why doesn't this thing display in IE7?







Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Take care,
>
> Jonathan
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