favicon.ico

[Kurt Wall]

Feigning erudition, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
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% Kurt Wall spewed electrons into the ether that resembled:
% > Many Web sites (www.mozilla.org and slashdot come to mind) have a little
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% hey! we have one of those too!
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% > 1) Is this icon a Windows .ico format file or what?
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% yes
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% > 2) What are the requirements, such as size and number of colors,
% >    for said file?
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% uh. grab www.linux-sxs.org/favicon.ico and check
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% > 3) What is the magic CSS or HTML incantation that makes it appear
% >    in Web browsers?
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% there isn't any (regardless of what was posted here). just put the damn thing 
% in DOCROOT and the browsers fetch it automagically

It ain't happenin', dude.  However, if i added the magic incantation
<link type="image/ico" rel="icon" href="favicon.ico"> to $DOCROOT/index.html,
it came up just fine, as you can see at the KurtWerks home page. To see
one that doesn't work, have a look at http://www.kurtwerks.com/noicon.html.

Kurt
-- 
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