Mime Types/Favicons

[Neredbojias]

Guy Macon:

Alas, image/x-icon does not conform to the IANA Mime-Type standards.
The "x-" Mime-Types are for files that have no assigned Mime-Type,
and .ico has been assigned image/vnd.microsoft.icon.

|Neredbojias:

|Yes, as I discovered in my researching. Most Google references still
|proffer the "image/x-icon" though. Interestingly too,
|"text/javascript" should really be "application/javascript" as in:

|<script type="application/javascript">

|...which I didn't know, either.

Get a load of this! I uploaded 2 pages to my site identical in
everything except that one had:

<script type="application/javascript">

....and the other:

<script type="text/javascript">

....for the javascript sections.

Well guess what. Ie7 fails to read the javascript in the "application"
version! I _really_ hope they fix that in ie8...

 

[Neredbojias]

Neredbojias wrote:

What a pile of crap Microsoft products are!
Yes...

Find any problems with image/vnd.microsoft.icon instead of
image/x-icon? Witt Microsoft only accepting .ico files for
favicons, I need to pick one or the other.

No. Seems to work fine in the 4 biggie browsers (ff, opera, safari, ie7)
I've tested. 'Course so did x-icon.