Favicon.ico Display In Ie .. Works Fine In Ff

[pumper]

I feel silly asking web questions on a Thai forum .. but the answers to any & all questions are best on ThaiVisa.

i have a dummies web site & am trying to get a 'favicon' to display.

works fine in FF .. nada in IE

note: Thaivisa's favicon works in my FF but not in a IE window.

a google 'favicon & IE' indicates favicon in IE is difficult

my html code w/ domain altered:

<link REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://123blondbabes123.ru/favicon.ico">

the above (with proper domain) works in FF .. I can have different 'favicons' on different pages w/ ff

oh, photo impact 11 from panthip does it all .. sizes to 16x16 + saves as .ico

& saving original as 256# .gif & re-saving as .ico seems to have more vibrant colors than .jpg to .ico.

[cdnvic]

IE only displays favicons for sites already bookmarked. Add the site to your bookmarks, close the browser, then go back to it by clicking the bookmark.

[pumper]

IE only displays favicons for sites already bookmarked. Add the site to your bookmarks, close the browser, then go back to it by clicking the bookmark.

thanks

I only now realized that a bookmark in FF's IE window is a FF bookmark!

4 out of 5 (on a high traffic day) use IE

the favicons do make the tabs look "professional"

[nullx8]

IE only displays favicons for sites already bookmarked. Add the site to your bookmarks, close the browser, then go back to it by clicking the bookmark.

thats for sure wrong ..

if the site is in strict html or xhtml

then the format is wrong ..

example

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.thaiguru.de/favicon.ico" />

if your icon a Gif or animated then the code must show like this

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.thaiguru.de/favicon.ico" />
 <link rel="icon" href="http://www.thaiguru.de/img/favicona.gif" type="image/gif" />

uppercase is Stoneage and not valid since html3 and xhtml0 anymore.

another thing is that some browsers (including IE) may take some while to "show" it ..

to make this Faster cdnvic is right with Bookmark the page ..

but well ... the icon is for everybody .. ;-)

why its work in FF is easy to explain ..

as FF using mozilla cores .. and favicon is moreless a standard ..

so the browser anyway look for /favicon.ico

if the code wrong (uppercase) it will be displayed anyway .. as long the file is there and the dimensions correct