OT: IE Browser setting controlling favivon.ico ?

Hello,

Is there a setting in IE (6, in this case) which prevents a favicon.ico
from being displayed?

The .ico appears properly in Mozilla and Netscape, but not IE.

In head:

<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">

User has purged Internet cache and restarted.... which was not necessary
with Moz or Netscape.

Website:

<A HREF ="http://www.silvercity.org">http://www.silvercity.org</A>

Any input welcome.

Thanks
rg





Ralph Gauer
[email protected]
www.ralphgauer.com
505-534-4184
Silver City, New Mexico

OT: IE Browser setting controlling favivon.ico ?



How large is the file. I just had to change some sites down to 16 x 16
for IE.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ralph Gauer
> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 12:22 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [meu] OT: IE Browser setting controlling favivon.ico ?
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Is there a setting in IE (6, in this case) which prevents a
> favicon.ico
> from being displayed?
>
> The .ico appears properly in Mozilla and Netscape, but not IE.
>
> In head:
>
> <link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
>
> User has purged Internet cache and restarted.... which was
> not necessary
> with Moz or Netscape.
>
> Website:
>
<A HREF ="http://www.silvercity.org">http://www.silvercity.org</A>

Any input welcome.

Thanks
rg





Ralph Gauer
[email protected]
www.ralphgauer.com
505-534-4184
Silver City, New Mexico

OT: IE Browser setting controlling favivon.ico ?



At 11:21 AM 4/11/2005, Ralph Gauer wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Is there a setting in IE (6, in this case) which prevents a favicon.ico
>from being displayed? The .ico appears properly in Mozilla and Netscape,
>but not IE. In head:
>
><link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
><link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
>
>User has purged Internet cache and restarted.... which was not necessary
>with Moz or Netscape.
>
>Website: <A HREF ="http://www.silvercity.org">http://www.silvercity.org</A>
>
>Any input welcome.

Ralph,

IE usually needs the site to be in favorites before the fav(orite)icon shows.

I just went to the site in NS (7 in my case). favicon showed immediately.
It's not in my bookmarks for NS7. Then I went to the site in IE (6 in my
case). No favicon. After adding the site to IE favorites, the favicon
showed immediately.

-mike

RESOLVED OT: IE Browser setting controlling favivon.ico ?



Mike,

Actually, that did it, after a browser restart.

Thanks
rg



>Ralph,
>
>IE usually needs the site to be in favorites before the fav(orite)icon shows.
>
>I just went to the site in NS (7 in my case). favicon showed immediately.
>It's not in my bookmarks for NS7. Then I went to the site in IE (6 in my
>case). No favicon. After adding the site to IE favorites, the favicon
>showed immediately.
>
>-mike
>
>
>

Ralph Gauer
[email protected]
www.ralphgauer.com
505-534-4184
Silver City, New Mexico

OT: IE Browser setting controlling favivon.ico ?



Ralph,

In my sites, I also have this in HEAD:

<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="/support/img/favicon.ico">

Yours would be /favicon.ico for a relative path from root to the image in root.

One other thing I would suggest is putting all three of those relevant tags
up higher in the source, preferably above all the CSS and Javascript code.
Mine are always just under META for keywords, and the order before that
goes: TITLE, META (for description) and META (for keywords). Following that
I have LINK REL's for favicon. Then the rest of my HEAD looks something
like this (in case you might wanna know hehe) HTTP-EQUIV for no image
toolbar (so that awful IE image manipulation toolbar won't show), then
METAs for author and copyright, then the META for smart tag prevention (to
keep those awful people from triggering on and displaying linked ads on
keywords within MY sites for OTHER people's sites), and finally the METAs
for revisit and robots. Then in some I have a further LINK REL for
CSS/stylesheets cuz I like to have mine in separate files in case I need to
make a change - easier done in one file to affect all others.

Anyway, point is I would move those HEAD elements related to favicon up
closer to the beginning of HEAD rather than down under all the CSS and
Javascript calls as it appears they are now. And you might want to include
a preceding slash "/" to make sure it knows to pull from a web root
location; especially if you have some subdir pages.

Just some thoughts.

-mike

At 11:45 AM 4/11/2005, you wrote:
>Mike,
>
>Gaargh.... Tried the same thing, and no joy... but at least I can blame
>Microsoft.
>
>Thanks
>rg
>At 11:43 AM 4/11/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>>At 11:21 AM 4/11/2005, Ralph Gauer wrote:
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>Is there a setting in IE (6, in this case) which prevents a favicon.ico
>>>from being displayed? The .ico appears properly in Mozilla and Netscape,
>>>but not IE. In head:
>>>
>>><link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
>>><link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
>>>
>>>User has purged Internet cache and restarted.... which was not necessary
>>>with Moz or Netscape.
>>>
>>>Website: <A HREF ="http://www.silvercity.org">http://www.silvercity.org</A>
>>>
>>>Any input welcome.
>>
>>Ralph,
>>
>>IE usually needs the site to be in favorites before the fav(orite)icon shows.
>>
>>I just went to the site in NS (7 in my case). favicon showed immediately.
>>It's not in my bookmarks for NS7. Then I went to the site in IE (6 in my
>>case). No favicon. After adding the site to IE favorites, the favicon
>>showed immediately.
>>
>>-mike

RESOLVED OT: IE Browser setting controlling



At 11:47 AM 4/11/2005, you wrote:
>Mike,
>
>Actually, that did it, after a browser restart.
>
>Thanks
>rg

Ralph,

Ah good. Check my other (follow-on) email -- only seconds ago. It has some
other ideas; good to implement just as a matter of course.

-mike

<snipped>

OT: IE Browser setting controlling favivon.ico ?



Richard,

At 01:26 PM 4/11/2005, Richard Grevers wrote:
>On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 12:01:39 -0500, Mike @ Levrah <[email protected]>
>gave utterance to the following:
>
>>Ralph,
>>
>>In my sites, I also have this in HEAD:
>...
>>HTTP-EQUIV for no image toolbar (so that awful IE image manipulation
>>toolbar won't show),
>
>What's the syntax for that one?

<META HTTP-EQUIV="imagetoolbar" CONTENT="no">

>>...then the META for smart tag prevention (to keep those awful people
>>from triggering on and displaying linked ads on keywords within MY sites
>>for OTHER people's sites),
>
>I found out the other day that the outcry against MS Smarttags was so
>great that the concept was pulled after only 3 weeks. But that 5 years
>later, people are still putting this tag in.

Yep. That's probably because those people don't altogether trust MS to do
-- or continue to do -- what they say they will do. :-) My motto: Better to
be safe than screwed (and even then you need to stay safe with the
proverbial [arm-less] raincoat). LOL

-mike