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IE doesn't show .ico icons in HTML if not served as "image/x-icon"

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I think the best thing to do is convert them to another format. If you are displaying the icons manually then you could download each, convert it with an image program, and upload it to your site.

If you're doing it automatically you'll need to look at whatever image-handling tools you get on the server-side. If you're using PHP, that'd be the GD or ImageMagick libraries. Just convert to PNG for example, and cache it on your site.

If IE doesn't display .ico files inline with a page, then it's unlikely you're gonna be able to make it display without doing some kind of processing. At the most simple level, you can just read the external images and serve them up as the right mime type, without converting them.

DisgruntledGoat 2009-09-17 16:19:15

I agree - much better than trying somehow to make browsers (esp. non-IE ones) display ICOs in IMGs

Eli Krupitsky 2009-09-17 23:39:06

Non-IE ones display them correctly always. I'm on .NET :( they're all dynamically loaded, thousands of them probably. I know GD for PHP, and thought about it, but its too much work for such a simple thing. thanks for your kind help!

vsync 2009-09-18 08:41:34

I'm sure .net has some image handling functions. But you should be able to simply serve up files yourself with a different mime type, without conversion.

DisgruntledGoat 2009-09-18 13:56:25

@DisgruntledGoat - How can I do that ?

vsync 2009-09-21 07:05:02

I don't know exactly how in .net, but you'd have a script with a parameter of the icon file. The script would set a header of `image/x-icon` and then read the file passed in and simply spit it out. In PHP you'd just use the header function and curl_exec. May be worth asking a separate question targeted directly towards .net.

DisgruntledGoat 2009-09-21 15:21:39

Thanks a lot :)

vsync 2009-09-23 06:13:36

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