No Favicon In IE7...?

Dinsdale · Jul 7, 2006

It works in every other browser, on both Mac and Windows OS.

http://www.24hourhotline.net

Yes, I have a reference to the icon in my <head>.

I can't find anything related to this on the MSDN site - any clues?

Yes, I have this site bookmarked, as well.

I can see other favicons in IE7, such as on the Google site. But I
can't see any reference to this icon in their code, either.

Thanks.

Beauregard T. Shagnasty · Jul 7, 2006

Dinsdale said:
It works in every other browser, on both Mac and Windows OS.

hxxp://www.24hourhotline.net

I was going to look at your code, but as soon as you screwed with my
browser - maximizing it - I decided that was enough.

I own my browser, not you.

Thanks.

You're most welcome.

Jonathan N. Little · Jul 7, 2006

Beauregard said:
I was going to look at your code, but as soon as you screwed with my
browser - maximizing it - I decided that was enough.

I own my browser, not you.

You're most welcome.

luckily the JavaScript was so old it didn't even try to resize my
browser windows.... Dinsdale (sounds like a Monty Python line) dump the
archaic Dynamic Drive crap. (Man I's surly tonight!)

Small thing but for XHTML this in not terminated correctly

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.24hourhotline.net/favicon.ico" >

should be:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.24hourhotline.net/favicon.ico" />

Not sure if IE7 is the same as its predecessors but IE like single
format 16x16 favicons and generally 16-color.

Beauregard T. Shagnasty · Jul 7, 2006

Jonathan said:
luckily the JavaScript was so old it didn't even try to resize my
browser windows.... Dinsdale (sounds like a Monty Python line) dump
the archaic Dynamic Drive crap. (Man I's surly tonight!)

At this time, the maximizing code is gone from the page. <g>

Dinsdale · Jul 7, 2006

Jonathan:

Adding a forward slash didn't fix it. I even checked the code provided
to me by the site that generated the favicon.ico itself.

I also ran a favicon validator service I found here:

http://www.htmlkit.com/go/favicon/validator/

And it passed validation.

But what I've just noticed is, the actual favicon is 32x32. That's
what gets generated when you upload your image file here:

http://www.chami.com/html-kit/

They give you a 16x16 animated version (don't want to use that!), and a
16x16 PNG format as a preview.

But no 16x16 .ico file.

So, let's figure out how to get a static 16x16 .ico file produced.
What's behind this file conversion process, anyway? It's not actually
disguised as a bitmap format, I already tried.

Thanks.

Jonathan N. Little · Jul 7, 2006

Dinsdale said:
Jonathan:

Adding a forward slash didn't fix it. I even checked the code provided
to me by the site that generated the favicon.ico itself.

I also ran a favicon validator service I found here:

http://www.htmlkit.com/go/favicon/validator/

And it passed validation.

But what I've just noticed is, the actual favicon is 32x32. That's
what gets generated when you upload your image file here:

http://www.chami.com/html-kit/

They give you a 16x16 animated version (don't want to use that!), and a
16x16 PNG format as a preview.

But no 16x16 .ico file.

So, let's figure out how to get a static 16x16 .ico file produced.
What's behind this file conversion process, anyway? It's not actually
disguised as a bitmap format, I already tried.

Actually it is a dual format ICO with 1 16x16@256-color and 1
32x32@256-color icon. I have a icon editor, Google for one, there are
many free ones out there or you can use the freeware IrfanView
(www.irfanview.com) to convert a 16x16 BMP to ICO.

Dinsdale · Jul 8, 2006

OK, back to square one.

So why doesn't this thing display in IE7?

Jonathan N. Little · Jul 8, 2006

Dinsdale said:
OK, back to square one.

So why doesn't this thing display in IE7?

Because the icon you are using has two versions within it, a 32x32@256
icon *and* 16x16@256. Strip out the 32x32@256 icon and it would work in IE.

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