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i came over this html its for a Favicon
what is a favicon?
A favicon is a tiny graphic that replaces the standard web page icon in your browser's Address bar. It also appears in the Favorites menu when your web site is bookmarked. (you might have seen this on mess.be suprnova.org and google)

a favicon needs to be 16x16 and saved with an .ico extension
heres the html

code:

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<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.website.com/images/myicon.ico">

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Favicon.co.uk has a free online favicon editor and emails the finished icon to you
Chami.com's HTML Kit has a free tool which converts an image you've created with your own graphics program into a favicon

a thought this would be good for the msg plus website

the msgplus website has got a favicon, you just can't see it in IE.

Both the forums and the main site already have FavIcons.

iE just is really annoying about it. but Firefox (and opera, i think) show them

safari shows them too

Why don't IE show them darn it

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Originally posted by XxRebelSeanxX
Why don't IE show them  darn it 

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Cause it isnt supposed to be shown?
i dont see whats so annoying about it, the favicon, as its name says, its meant to be displayed when u save an url in ur favourites folder, bnot in the address bar

Why not? It firstly was supposed to be stored as icon in the bookmarks, but afterwards icons appeared in toolbar and now there are even page tabs, so it makes sense that the definition is changed.

For backward-compatibility... it will stay "favicon"

I love Favicons in tabs, btw

The msgplus.net favicon doesn't show up for me in Opera... I think the site needs the <link> code added...

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Originally posted by WDZ
The msgplus.net favicon doesn't show up for me in Opera... I think the site needs the <link> code added...

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Hm... It doesn't show in Mozilla either.. Strange. Wasn't there something that only IE should display it properly, because of alpha transparency/shadow or something?