favicon.ico

[ronnie gauthier]

The icon can be named anything, the "favicon" comes from IE where if it is
named that is shows in the favorites when the site is bookmarked.

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 22:47:18 -0500 - Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> wrote the
following
Re: Re: favicon.ico

>On Monday 10 February 2003 9:00 pm, someone claiming to be Kurt Wall wrote:
>> Feigning erudition, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
><snip>
>> %
>> % 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.
>>
>
>That's Mozilla not automagically loading favicon.ico, Konqueror does it, as 
>does Phoenix. By default, Mozilla turns that off. It can be enabled in 
>Mozilla via a pref in user.js. According to Moz's 0.9.8's release notes:
>
># Mozilla no longer reads /favicon.ico images by default although Mozilla 
>still reads page icons defined with the <link> tag. Set the following pref to 
>turn the feature back on.
>
> user_pref("browser.chrome.favicons",true);
>
>Regards, 
>Tim
>
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