Favicons

[Soquili]

Sorry I was mistaken in my earlier post. IE will not use a png for a favicon but FireFox will.

[Egg Bramhill]

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.

[Soquili]

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

[Egg Bramhill]

This is from the beta version Bill but it does appear to be an outstanding problem LINK

[Soquili]

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

[amateur]

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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[steve.ledger]

how do I export a Xara graphic in the .ico format?

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

[Spinny]

Is there any merit at all to including a "shortcut icon" tag as well? For example:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.mysite.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" >

[Soquili]

Hi Spinny,

I use the "shortcut icon" in my code and it doesn't help IE see png or gif images.

[Spinny]

Thanks. I'd wondered whether there were any real value added in including it.