Icons for Favorites? | WPDFD.com Forums

Nickro said:

09/15/04, 259 21 2004 2004:%i:1095225677 01:21:17

Hullo.

Not sure if this is the right section of the forum, 'cos I don't know how this is done... how do you make a web page saved to the user's 'Favorites' have its own little icon? (Such as the one for this forum.)

Joe Gillespie said:

09/15/04, 259 31 2004 2004:%i:1095229917 02:31:57

I have an article about this here

http://www.wpdfd.com/editorial/wpd0304review.htm#footnote

Nickro said:

09/17/04, 261 57 2004 2004:%i:1095418647 06:57:27

Great, thanks!

Amysun said:

11/10/04, 315 52 2004 2004:%i:1100134354 19:52:34

I created the favicon using your instructions and it works for me, thanks! But, I noted that other developers, such as http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/ does not use the tag. In fact, I could not find any reference to favicon in the source code. How does it work or is referenced on their sites?

Amy

Joe Gillespie said:

11/11/04, 316 55 2004 2004:%i:1100152511 00:55:11

I don't see any favicon at http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/ (Mozilla 1.7.3 OSX)

Amysun said:

11/11/04, 316 11 2004 2004:%i:1100153513 01:11:53

It's the green leaf that appears in the URL field, as well on the browser tab. Do you see it?

I find this true of other sites, including CNN, that has a favicon, but the link is nowhere to be found in their source. Where do they put it?

Amy

Joe Gillespie said:

11/11/04, 316 56 2004 2004:%i:1100163415 03:56:55

No, it doesn't show up on that site or in CNN for me. It does show up at http://www.wpdfd.com/index.html and other sites so whatever they are doing doesn't seem to work in Mozilla.

Baxter said:

11/11/04, 316 30 2004 2004:%i:1100183423 09:30:23

Favicons can be funny things... WPDFD's, for example, stopped showing up with the FF .9 release.

This method appears to be reliable:

Joe Gillespie said:

11/11/04, 316 27 2004 2004:%i:1100190435 11:27:15

Baxter said:
Favicons can be funny things... WPDFD's, for example, stopped showing up with the FF .9 release.

This method appears to be reliable:

The WPDFD Favicon shows up fine in my FireFox 1.0 but I will agree that they are fustratingly unreliable. The

http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/

favicon shows in Firefox 1.0 but not Mozilla 1.7.3 Mac or IE 6 (Win).

Baxter said:

11/11/04, 316 37 2004 2004:%i:1100198244 13:37:24

For me, it shows up fine in the address bar, but not in the bookmarks. The method I posted seems to work everywhere, for me, anyway.

Favicons are flaky. Always have been.