Shoutbox

IIRC, it's MSIE that can't handle alpha transparency...


Anyways:
In Netscape (although Mozilla based), all the icons appear nicely from the first time...
In MSIE, the favicon is only used for the bookmarks (like it was originaly designed for), so if you add the site, the icon is shown in the bookmarks, after that, if you load the page, the icon will also show in the addressbar.

Wait, a few months back my Internet Explorer was showing Favicons in my adress bar....

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Originally posted by XxRebelSeanxX
Wait, a few months back my Internet Explorer was showing Favicons in my adress bar....

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If you use a bookmark from MSIE, then MSIE will show the icon in the address bar, but that's only when the site called from the bookmarks...

After that, MSIE reconizes the site and will show the icon from then on... (even if you delete the site from the bookmarks again! This is a bug in MSIE...)

Furthermore, MSIE doesn't always reconize the favicon, even if you add the site to the bookmarks first. This is due a bug that MSIE doesn't handle some multiple format icons and transparency in them very well...

There is also something about <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">: not all browser reconize this and will use this. Some browsers actually only look for the file "favicon.ico" in the root of the hompage, thus regardless of what you've defined inside your HTML. Thus to make sure your page is compatible with every browser (as far as reconizing favicon is concearned), save your icon as "favicon.ico" into the root of the homepage and use <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico"> between the head-tags in your homepage...

EDIT: some typos

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Originally posted by Tochjo

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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?

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No, actually, there was something that IE-based browsers didn't show it correctly because of transparency/shadow, but IE, Firefox, mozilla, Safari, whatever... should show it correctly.

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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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Weird thing about Opera there, it's strange it doesn't look for favicon.ico. It's a browser bug (I know it's not a standard, but it should be considered a bug).

Ie did it again. That's why 80% of internet users use ie.

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Originally posted by Tochjo

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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?

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it does shows in Firefox

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Originally posted by Millenium_edition
Ie did it again. That's why 80% of internet users use ie.

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wtf? that doesn't explain anything

lol i went too far i think :unsure:

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Originally posted by Millenium_edition
lol i went too far i think :unsure:

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Believe me, you don't want to start a new "my browser is the best"-discussion

But I have to say 80% of users are wrong

80% of the users know almost nothing about computers, that's the problem

Even if IE was a great browser, it still would not be used for its features. It's used because it's the first most users see when learning about "the Internet". And that's ok. And offtopic, btw, so let's not get into a which browser's better thread