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Re: IE 6 and favicons

  • Subject: Re: IE 6 and favicons
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com>
  • Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 02:21:23 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
  • References: <BEA822F0.D1C2%brando@comcast.net> <ldeclich.1q7wfy@no-mx.forums.yourdomain.com.au>
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ldeclich wrote:

> KNOWN BROWSER ISSUES:[/B]
> 
> _MICROSOFT_IE_6_ FOR WINDOWS WILL NOT DISPLAY THE FAVICON UNTIL THE URL
> HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE FAVORITES. TRY IT: ADD YOUR URL TO YOUR FAVORITES
> AND THEN RELOAD THE URL INTO YOUR BROWSER PAGE. YOU SHOULD NOTICE THE
> FAVICON APPEAR NOW.IBM.COM AND ADOBE.COM ARE GOOD EXAMPLES TO TEST
> THIS.

I think it was implemented this way in order to lower the bandwidth. The
real issue is the disappearance of icons from Favourites as cache is
periodically emptied.

> _SAFARI_FOR_THE_MAC_ WILL NOT DISPLAY AN UPDATED FAVICON UNTIL THE
> BROWSER CACHE HAS BEEN CLEARED. BUT CHOOSING ?EMPTY CACHE? FROM THE
> MENU WON'T HELP BECAUSE SAFARI STORES FAVICONS IN A SEPARATE CACHE. YOU
> MUST EMPTY THE ICON CACHE YOURSELF. LOOK FOR IT IN
> USER>LIBRARY>SAFARI>ICONS.

Perhaps this is how Safari prevents icons from disappearing (see above) when
the cache is emptied.

> *MORE TIPS:* SOME BROWSERS WILL LOOK FOR A DIRECT LINK IN THE HTML
> SOURCE CODE TO YOUR SITE'S FAVICON.ICO FILE. YOU CAN HELP THESE
> BROWSERS BY ADDING THIS LINK IN THE HEAD SECTION OF EACH PAGE ON WHICH
> YOU WANT THE FAVICON.ICO TO APPEAR. HERE IS THE LINK CODE TO INCLUDE:
> <LINK REL=\"SHORTCUT ICON\" HREF=\"/FAVICON.ICO\"> ONCE YOU'VE ADDED
> THIS CODE, UPLOAD ALL OF YOUR MODIFIED PAGES.

A look at the error log soon reveals that it's necessary, or else log chaos
continues.
 
> [B]TESTING
> If your new Favicon does not show up right away, try refreshing the
> page ? or put a '?' at the end of the url, which will trick a browser
> into thinking the page is new and not cached

That's a nice trick, but why shout?

Roy

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Roy S. Schestowitz
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