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Does favicon.ico need to reside in that same directory of index.html?

Answer 1

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No, you can put it anywhere if you specify it in the tag. However, for IE, you need to give a fully qualified URL (i.e. not a relative url).

jeffamaphone 2009-11-08 04:52:07

Really? I was working on an answer where I was going to mention IE ignores `<link rel="shortcut icon">`...is this new behavior I'm unaware of?

Jed Smith 2009-11-08 04:53:23

Funny how Microsoft more or less invented the favicon, but their browsers have such trouble with them.

Frank DeRosa 2009-11-08 04:57:50

@Jed Smith: IE requires the rel="shortcut icon", even though using a space violates the standard (according to the link in jeffamaphone's post). All the other browsers look for a rel="icon" value.

Frank DeRosa 2009-11-08 04:59:38

@Frank? really? some people say MS is the only one following the standard of W3C in the case of favicon...

動靜能量 2009-11-08 11:49:13

@Frank: Yeah, you must say "shortcut icon".@Jian: There is a W3C standard for favicon? AFAIK some IE PM just pulled it out of their arse late in a ship cycle. Oh, I see there is a draft, but it pretty much agrees with what we've said here.

jeffamaphone 2009-11-08 16:08:11

Answer 2

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You can play it anywhere else and use the <link> tag to refer to it.

However it is good practice to put it on the domain root e.g. http://example.com/favicon.ico, because modern browsers will actually do a call to that file when loading pages to load the icon first.

thephpdeveloper 2009-11-08 04:58:48

That's actually NOT a good practice. The W3C frowns upon pollution of the URI namespace in this way. Furthermore, not all users have access to the root of their domain (e.g. www.example.com/users/billybob, schools, geocities, etc).

jeffamaphone 2009-11-08 16:09:39

it is good to have one there no matter what, because either way the server still have to return the request on that. Do your homework on this. You can easily find this on https://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#favicon

thephpdeveloper 2009-11-08 16:14:44

Internet Explorer will remember that you had 404 and not re-request it. I imagine the latest versions of the other browsers do the same. You can put it in the root to avoid the 404, but you should still have a <link> tag pointing at it.

jeffamaphone 2009-11-08 17:38:59

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