I have a link on my site that is strictly JavaScript, that the users can optionally drag to their browser's link bar. Because there is no associated site with a Favicon, the link always gets a blank icon. Is there anyway to associate a Favicon with it at the time the user drags it? I am primarily interested in a Firefox solution, but IE ...
I have a controller in MVC serving up images from a database. EDIT: This still happens if I serve up a file over completely standard means in MVC. Every time I request my image, Google Chrome also searches for my favicon.ico. To avoid unnecessary discussions about other things "I should also care about" let us assume I do not care for...
I am using Visual Studio Team System 2008 and see it has an Icon Editor and support for icons (including favicons) rolled into the product. What I can't seem to find is a good review of the pros and cons of using this tool vs. other methods (both on-line and programs) for creating icons? Also if one is going to use the tool in VSTS is...
How do you get the graphic that is next to the address bar show up? I have a very simple site, and I want to make a custom image, and have it show up when a user is on my site. Thanks ...
Hey, I am running Apache2 with multiple vhosts in the sites-enabled folder, each looks a bit like this: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName site1.com ServerAlias www.site1.com DocumentRoot /home/sites/site1/www/ <Directory /home/sites/site/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride all ...
What Mac OS X (leopard) application can I use to create favicon.ico -like ico files? Note: This is not to create widget icons or the like, but the (e.g. 16x16 pixel) files that appear on a web browser's tab and alongside a bookmark... ...
Our Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10.2.0.5 website has no favicon. I don't know if this is normal or not. If it is not normal I'll contact support, but if it is normal I'd like to know if there is a way to add one. I would guess if I knew where the root of the website was I could put a favicon.ico file there, but I'm not sure...
I was looking around the web at the way different sites put their favicon into the site. Whenever I try to do it myself I end up "hacking" until it just suddenly decides to work. I suppose I have 2 questions in one here. How is this site adding it's favicon? - http://www.fbd.ie I can't find favicon.ico in it's page source. Apart from...
Hi For any given site "example.domain.tld" or merely "domain.tld" I need to do the following in PHP: If the site has a favicon, get it wherever it is If it is not already a PNG, convert it to PNG Save it to /favicons/example.domain.tld.png If the site has no favicon, do nothing. Any ideas? I'm being stumped by the unreliable filef...
Is there a free and easy text-only favicon generator? There are numerous online favicon generators asking for a image+text to create a favicon. I am interested in putting only text into my favicon, probably with a choice of different fonts. Anybody knows of a a good online text-only favicon generator? Also, any desktop solution that doe...
I am using the following: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/images/favicon.ico" /> It is a true 'ico'. When I visit http://mydomain.com, the icon loads. But when I visit the 'www' subdomain: www.mydomain.com...it won't load. Any ideas what is going on? ...
I don't have a favicon.ico, but IE always make a request for it. Is it possible to prevent the browser to request for the favicon.ico for my site? Maybe some META-TAG in the HTML header? ...
I want to create a Firefox extension that creates a new icon in the address bar or replaces the existing one with the one specified in the extension. And then, add some javascript to display this custom logo only when the user is viewing a particular domain. If this is not doable for the location/address bar, displaying the logo on the...
Of all the things that I'd think a UA would cache it would be a favicon. One useragens seems to request it every 5 to 10 minutes Safari5531.9 CFNetwork/438.14 Darwin/9.8.0 (i386) (MacBookPro5%2C1) I will assume that this is a MacBookPro 5.1 running Safari 4.02, but what does is it doing with that favicon that it has to request it so ...
Other than the fact that PNG is a more common image format, is there any technical reason to favor favicon.png vs. favicon.ico? I'm supporting modern browsers which all support PNG favorite icons. ...
Hi all, I was wondering how to add our own custom icon to the web page for our Silverlight application? I know how to set the text (using the Title property for the Page), but the icon eludes me. For example, see the below image. The most left tab has the G for Google, and the most right one has the CNN icon. How can I get my own there...
I'm showing favicons of websites in a list, as <img /> elements. some websites serve them as: <link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico" /> and some serve them as: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" /> IE doesn't show the favicons images of those of don't have type="image/x-icon". I cannot control how webs...
If I configure Apache to serve /favicon.ico as MIME type image/vnd.microsoft.icon, instead of image/x-icon, will it break on any browsers? Wikipedia's favicon article indicates that image/vnd.microsoft.icon is the "correct" mime type, but that doesn't help if it means some users won't see it. I need to support IE6+, as well as modern b...
hello i'm writing a GM user script and i want to change the favicon dynamically changing it the old way is easy but i want to encode it in base64 to avoid hosting it this is what i have done after hosting the favicon var link = document.createElement('link'); link.type = 'image/x-icon'; link.rel = 'shortcut icon'; link.href = 'http://i...
Hi I just wanted to create a favicon for my website. Any suggestion how to? ...