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[Kurt Wall]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:46:03AM -0500, Tim Wunder wrote:
> On 2/13/2003 9:56 AM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
> >On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
> >
> >>Kurt Wall spewed electrons into the ether that resembled:
> >>
> >>>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.
> >>
> >>dude, do you get our icon when you visit the mothership? we don't use that
> >>damn <link> hack thing and it appears to work just fine.
> >
> >
> >Not in mozilla it doesn't.  I see no icon, and there are websites (/. for
> >one) where it works in mozilla.
> >
> 
> I've explained that on a previous post. Moz turns off automatic loading 
> of favicon.ico, but honors <link type...>. Automatic loading in Moz can 
> be enabled. See my previous post for a description how.
> http://linux-sxs.org/pipermail/linux-users/2003-February/014505.html

And I replied that I *did* have that option turned on and that it *still*
didn't work without using that <link type...> stuff.

Kurt