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How do I give my web sites an icon for iPhone?

How do I set the icon that appears on the iPhone for the web sites I create?...

What are the correct pixel dimensions for an apple-touch-icon?

I'm not sure what the correct size should be. Many sites seem to repeat that the apple-touch-icon should be 57x57 pixels but cite a broken link as their source. Hanselman's and playgroundblues's comments suggest different sizes including 163x163 and 60x60. Apple's own apple.com icon is 129x129! See my related question: How do I give ...

Why no favicon for my web site?

I've got a website that I've just uploaded onto the interwebs, and when using Firefox 3.0.1 on Ubuntu I don't see the favicon; Firefox 3.0.1 on WinXP shows it. Why isn't the favicon displaying under Ubuntu? It's a favicon.ico file in the root directory, not referenced in the meta tags; would it work better as a GIF? ...

Generating Icon Files

I'm looking for an online solution for generating .ICO files. I'd like the ICO files to have the ability to have transparency as well. What software or web site do you use to create them? [Update] To clarify, I have an existing image in PNG format, 32 x 32 pixels. I want to generate the icon from this existing file, not create a bra...

What is currently the best way to get a favicon to display in all browsers that support Favicons?

What is currently the best way to get a favicon to display in all browsers that currently support it? Please include: Which image formats are supported by which browsers. Which lines are needed in what places for the various browsers. ...

Is there a Python library for generating .ico files?

I'm looking to create favicon.ico files programatically from Python, but PIL only has support for reading ico files. ...

Where do you get good icons/images for applications & web apps?

I'm interested in finding good icons/images that can be used in both 'free' and proprietary programs. Please include a description of any license restrictions associated with the source of the icons you suggest. ...

Image icon beside the site URL

I would like to have information about the icons which are displayed alongside the site URLs on a web browser. Is this some browser specific feature? Where do we specify the icon source, ie, is it in some tag on the web page itself ? ...

favicon not working in IE

I have a site using a custom favicon.ico. The favicon displays as expected in all browsers except IE. When trying to display the favicon in IE, I get the big red x; when displaying the favicon in another browser, it displays just fine. The page source includes and it does work in other browsers. Thanks for your thoughts. The source of...

Where can I find a good desktop favicon.ico editor?

What is a simple easy to use desktop program for creating and editing favicon.ico files? I already have used http://favicon.cc which is a great site, but are there any better desktop tools designed for this? (Ideally ones that run under Ubuntu and aren't as complex as Gimp) ...

firefox 3 favicons - how to make them?

i noticed that paypal displays a very different favicon, one that's not just a simple 16x16 icon and is lengthy? anyone can teach me? ...

Changing website favicon dynamically

I have a web application that's branded according to the user that's currently logged in. I'd like to change the favicon of the page to be the logo of the private label, but I'm unable to find any code or any examples of how to do this. Has anybody successfully done this before? I'm picturing having a dozen icons in a folder, and the re...

Why isn't my favicon working?

Now I know there are a lot of similar questions around SO but I think I've covered all the basics. Here's what I know: My favicon is accessible through /favicon.ico (full link) The HTML is (page URL): <link rel="icon" href="http://www.bandcmotors.co.uk/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" /> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.band...

Serving favicon.ico in ASP.NET MVC

What is the final/best recommendation for how to serve favicon.ico in ASP.NET MVC? I am currently doing the following : Adding an entry to the very beginning of my RegisterRoutes method : routes.IgnoreRoute("favicon.ico"); Placing favicon.ico in the root of my application (which is also going to be the root of my domain). I have t...

How to have favicon / icon set when bookmarklet dragged to toolbar?

I've made myself a bookmarklet, and it functions just fine, but when added to a toolbar in Opera or Firefox, it just takes on the default bookmark icon for the browser (a globe and a star, respectively). My site has a favicon, and the window, tab and even [site] bookmark uses the favicon I've specified. Just not my bookmarklet. How ca...

How can I add a picture in address bar of the browser when my page is browsed?

Duplicate: Image icon beside the site URL What is currently the best way to get a favicon to display in all browsers that support Favicons? Preferred way to use favicons? I want to add my logo in the address bar of the browser, whenever it is browsed. How do I make a favicon? ...

Another favicon not working in IE...

Hi, I've read through and tried all the favicon fixes already posted. Including: Refreshing the cache Using a different favicon that works on other websites Using a favicon generating website Using a Photoshop favicon plugin Using an absolute path Using a relative path It works fine in all the other browsers. I'm using IE8 in Vista v...

favicon.ico "not found error" in app engine

I am tryin to develop on app engine and in the list of the errors displayed in the admin console I always see /favicon.ico i read the documentation , added a new folder called static and added this in my app.yaml - url: /favicon.ico static_files: static/favicon.ico upload: static/favicon.ico but even now i a getting t...

Setting UIImage dimensions on UITableViewCell image

I've got a standard UITableViewCell where I'm using the text and image properties to display a favicon.ico and a label. For the most part, this works really well since UIImage supports the ICO format. However, some sites (like Amazon.com say) have favicon.icos that make use of the ICO format's ability to store multiple sizes in the same ...

How to generate blank favicon programatically?

Hello. I have no favicon on my web site so there are numerous of failed log entry and I decided to rewrite favicon.ico get request to a page that will generate blank file and return it to a browser? How do you think, is it possible? Could you please help me a bit how to do that? ...