IE 5 (favicon.ico)

Hi,

I'm just playing around with IE 5. It has a new feature to load an icon from a website which will be displayed in the URL line and the favorites menu. So I strongly recommend that everyone uploads an icon to his website.

The file that IE asks is favicon.ico (lower-case-letters). I'm not sure if it's enough to have one icon at the root level. I have an icon in every directory to make sure one gets loaded. It looks cool to have a custom icon in the favorites menu. It seems that IE only loads the icon if a page is added to the favorites.

Hope this helps everyone here

Greetings from Bonn, Germany
  Meikel Weber
www.meikel.com

[Charles Capps]

I never upload one on purpose - the more times it appears in your 404 logs, the more bookmarks you know you're getting.

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[Deb]

Any suggestions on a good (easy, no brainer, just for this reason, cheap/freetrial) program for ico files?

That's an area I've never really ventured into....

Deb

[Justin]

Well, being a programmer, making icons is important. I use MicroAngelo 98, which is awesome. It supports all different formats of icons / cursors (mouse pointers) and it's easy to use. I costs like $60 to register, but you can download a trial here:

https://www.impactsoft.com/muangelo/muangelo.html

If you just want a simple icon, go to Paint Shop or something similar, make a 16 x 16 or 32 x 32 bitmap, save it as bitmap, and rename it to .ico - you won't get different sized icons in the file, but it can serve as a quick and dirty icon if needed

BTW, I was wondering what all those 404's were - I was thinking to myself "I never had any reference to an icon file" Now I know. Now I need to upload an icon


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[Deb]

hmmm Terra says he thinks he has an old version of MicroAngelo I may have to dig it up...

Deb
psssttt don't bring up the fact that this thing will guarantee bigger log files... it could cause Terra to go into a deep depression and hide under da desk

Hi Deb,

for anything having to do with icons, I suggest, you go to www.shareware.com and search for Icon.
You'll find libraries, librarians, editors, extractors, etc.

Meikel

[pqwabbit]

huh? so like lemme see if I understadn this- like ok someone goes to my site and say hmm this is kewl let me book mark it! so liek then IE like can grab and icon from the site? huh? what? what didi I miss - I dont use IE so liek im clueless

Lea

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IE organized its bookmarks as a Win95 menu (similar to the start menu). If you have a custom icon (favicon.ico), you can control the icon displayed next to the sitename in that menu. It makes a real difference to not have the standard IE icon.

Meikel

[Mandi]

Do we just stick this icon in our www directory, the way .htaccess just lives there, minding its own business . . . ?

[Armand]

Okay decided to find out more about this so looked it up on MS site.

A copy in root level is all that seems to be needed. It may be placed else where if the html of a page indicates where to find the file i.e. <LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" href="/path/foo.ico">

For more info on the bookmark icon thing try: msdn.microsoft.com/msdn-online/workshop/essentials/versions/icpie5.asp Info at bottom of page. Hope that helps someone else besides me.

I still need to upload my icon file which I made. Though I have no intention of upgrading yet so will have no idea how it works/looks I guess.

<edit>Just uploaded one, don't suppose someone with IE5 could check my site and bookmark it just to see it worked. www.arcanumcafe.com </edit>

[This message has been edited by Armand (edited 04-07-99).]