Sorry I was mistaken in my earlier post. IE will not use a png for a favicon but FireFox will.
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Sorry I was mistaken in my earlier post. IE will not use a png for a favicon but FireFox will.
Are you sure Bill? I use png's and they're fine in IE7, at least for display in the address bar and tabs, not sure about in favourite lists though as I rarely use IE.
Hi Egg,
It may be IE8 that is giving me problems using a png.
Amateur mentioned he wasn't getting the icon using IE so I created a simple test file and a png for the favicon. After putting them into a folder on my webhost and connecting using IE8 and FireFox the icon is shown in the address bar of FF but not in IE8.
http://btaylor.50megs.com/test
Both FF and IE8 display the favicon for my XaReg pages
http://btaylor.50megs.com/xareg/xareg-help.htm
This is from the beta version Bill but it does appear to be an outstanding problem LINK
Thanks Egg.
I don't know if wikipedia hasn't been updated but they state that IE does not support using gif or png for favicons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon
Thank you all, guys.
I searched a little on MicroSofts pages, and discovered many complaints about favicons displaying/not displaying in IE8 and earlier versions.
I guess this is a problem to sort out for MicroSoft.
However, if IE8 cannot use .png, .jpg as address bar icon,
how do I export a Xara graphic in the .ico format?
(Renaming a "example.png" file in Explorer failed, the extension did not change.)
Thanks for any help.
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WD 5.0.1.7886 DL March 16 2009, XXtreme4Pro 4.0.1.5601 CD Jul 4 2008
Xtreme doesn't output to .ico format.
But you can create your graphic in Xtreme, save as png then open it in IrfanView and then save as .ico :)
Is there any merit at all to including a "shortcut icon" tag as well? For example:
Code:<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.mysite.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" >
Hi Spinny,
I use the "shortcut icon" in my code and it doesn't help IE see png or gif images. ;)
Thanks. I'd wondered whether there were any real value added in including it.