completely none vital, just curious question for wake

Conexus · 28 November, 2005, 05:16:18 AM

On firefox the website loads with a little 2000AD icon on the address bar, and other sites, like the beeb, have their own icons too, but some other websites that are proffesionaly run (e.g Radio times) don't.

Just curious: is it something you have to pay for and/or programme in?

Buddy · 28 November, 2005, 05:22:36 AM

I'd like to know this as well. I'll be relaunching ximoc soon (ish, don't hold your breath) and was wondering how this little trick was accomplished.

SamuelAWilkinson · 28 November, 2005, 05:32:24 AM

I remember seeing this somewhere before. I think you just have to have an image file with a certain name in the root directory of the site.

Works for Explorer, too, as far as I'm aware.

Art · 28 November, 2005, 05:43:36 AM

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Funt Solo · 28 November, 2005, 11:37:12 AM

With Internet Explorer, this doesn't seem to work unless you add the page in question to your Favourites folder and then access the page by clicking on that link in your Favourites folder. After that's been done once, it then works on subsequent accessing of said web page without clicking on the Favourites link.

In Firefox, it works right off the bat.

Haven't tested it in other browsers (or on Mac).

That's with this code in the <head>:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">

(Where favicon.ico should be the relative path to the file from the page that requires it. In my test the favicon.ico file was in the same folder as the page that used it.)

Funt Solo · 28 November, 2005, 11:48:21 AM

Aha - noticed something else, then.

I re-added http://www.2000adonline.com/ to my Favourites folder in IE, which then makes the little 2K icon appear when I access that page.

However, it only works for that specific address. Now that I'm in (for example) http://www.2000adonline.com/?zone=fan&page=message&choice=15637.0211000000, IE doesn't display the icon anymore. I'd have to add each individual address to my Favourites folder to get it to work - something I'm not going to do for obvious reasons.

It still makes the Favourites folder easier to navigate, though, so it's not a total waste of time for IE users.

Wake · 28 November, 2005, 11:52:05 AM

I discovered it when I saw that /favicon.ico was coming up as the top document not found on the site stats, so I thought I'd try and find out what it was for.

Cheers,

Wake

Funt Solo · 28 November, 2005, 03:08:54 PM

Excellent!

I'll be teaching that to the students at tomorrow's lecture.

ukdane · 28 November, 2005, 09:37:14 PM

Strangely enough, I have a number of links where this should appear, and the first time I added them to my favourites, it was there until I shut the computer down. BUT now only the My Yahoo one remains- I thought it was "wiped" from my cache, but I've done some fiddling around, and can't make it "stick".

Why?

James · 28 November, 2005, 10:21:33 PM

I've got this problem too, dane. The way round it I found (for this site) is download the icon , go to the favourite, right click, properties, change icon, choose icon and away you go.

I'm sure there must be a more technical way around this but it works for me.

James · 28 November, 2005, 10:22:32 PM

hmm. The icon.

Probably.

http://www.2000adonline.com/images/icons/2000ad.ico">