Posted by BobaBird on 01/09/08 13:58

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 14:12:03 +1300, "Nik Coughlin" wrote:

> > "IGot2P" <IGot2P@crsales.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Please enlighten me as to what the real deal is with IE and favicons.

If your .ico is in the same directory as the .html file, I think
href="/favicon.ico"
should be
href="favicon.ico"

> Favicons don't show up in IE until you've bookmarked the site

Not true in IE7.
For IE6, there is also a trick of dragging the adress bar's default
"e" favicon and dropping it back on the address bar.

> Except in your case I believe it is because your favicon is actually a gif
> saved with an ico extension. I think IE only supports actual ico files. I
> could be wrong.

Correct according to
<http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537656.aspx>.

IGot2P, click
<http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/12427/Make_Your_Icon_Appear_in_the_Browsers_Address_Bar.html>
for links to some .ico editors.

I like the look of your page. The only questionable thing to me is
that, when using a narrow window, the bgcolor is a lighter shade of
tan below the bottom of div#navigation. This makes a paragraph span
across what would appear to be a different section of the page.
--

Charles

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