favicon

[Chameleon]

the extension of favicon MUST BE ico?

what if I use a 16x16 favicon.png?

[Toby Inkster]

Chameleon wrote:

the extension of favicon MUST BE ico?
what if I use a 16x16 favicon.png?

There are really two questions here:

(a) does the favicon have to be *named* "/favicon.ico"?; and
(b) does it have to be in Windows Icon format -- can it be in PNG?

A. No, it doesn't. But if you give it a different name, browsers won't
know where to look for it, so you'll have to provide a link to it in your
HTML files:

<link rel="shortcut icon"
href="/myfavicon.ico"
type="image/x-icon">

B. No, it doesn't. Some browsers support favicons in other image formats,
like PNG. However, Internet Explorer *only* supports Windows Icon format
for favicons.

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[David E. Ross]

Chameleon wrote:

the extension of favicon MUST BE ico?

what if I use a 16x16 favicon.png?

In general, a favicon must be an icon. That's why it's call a favICON.

Taking a file that is not an icon and changing the extension (e.g., your
favicon.png) to ico will not work. In this case, the file is still
formatted as PNG.

On the other hand, none of my favicons are named "favicon.ico". As
Inkster points out, the LINK element can be used to indicate which of
several icons to use. I use seven different icons, depending on the
topic of the Web page.

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[dwight.stegall]

all you need to do is upload the favicon.ico to your root directory.
you do not need to put a link tag in your source code. it works just
fine without it.

[David E. Ross]

dw************@gmail.com wrote:

all you need to do is upload the favicon.ico to your root directory.
you do not need to put a link tag in your source code. it works just
fine without it.

That only works if (1) you have access to your root directory and (2)
the file is indeed named "favicon.ico". The latter is important if you
want to use different icons for different pages within the same Web
site. Since each icon file has its own unique name, you then need to
link to an icon file in each case that it's not "favicon.ico".

For a discussion of multiple icon files, see my
<http://www.rossde.com/internet/web_design.html>.

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