Hi - I’m sure it’s not my imagination but I made a favicon a few weeks ago using the excellent html-kit and it seemed to work fine (in safari) I just noticed it was missing, OK so maybe I dleted it somehow, added it again to my site but it wouldn’t work, dug a little deeper and spotted that it should be 16x16 (though the image html-kit generated was 32x32) - anyway I halved the size in Graphic converter and it still doesn’t work (though I can see it in Firefox but the background is white not transparent) any thoughts anyone please ? Regards Roger
Hi - I’m sure it’s not my imagination but I made a favicon a few
weeks ago using the excellent html-kit and it seemed to work fine
(in safari) I just noticed it was missing, OK so maybe I dleted it
somehow, added it again to my site but it wouldn’t work, dug a
little deeper and spotted that it should be 16x16 (though the image
html-kit generated was 32x32) - anyway I halved the size in Graphic
converter and it still doesn’t work (though I can see it in Firefox
but the background is white not transparent) any thoughts anyone
please ? Regards Roger
MMMMmmmm thanks Joe and I’ve now tried that but maybe I was wrong originally, in fact the index page loads and the favicon doesn’t show in the browser (safari anyway) but if I click through a couple of the other pages it appears and if I click back to the home page it stays (unless I refresh the home page and it disappears again) … maybe you could have a quick look but i can’t see any obvious conflicts, the 2 swfs are on all the pages as is a ‘counter’ - any ideas ? Regards Roger
Very strange. It’s a long shot but try calling the file favicon.ico
and placing it alongside your HTML files, not in the Resources folder.
Joe
On 4 Sep 2008, at 14:00, Roger Burton wrote:
MMMMmmmm thanks Joe and I’ve now tried that but maybe I was wrong
originally, in fact the index page loads and the favicon doesn’t
show in the browser (safari anyway) but if I click through a couple
of the other pages it appears and if I click back to the home page
it stays (unless I refresh the home page and it disappears
again) … maybe you could have a quick look but i can’t see any
obvious conflicts, the 2 swfs are on all the pages as is a ‘counter’
That’s clever Joe, how did you do that -it worked … why ?
Out of interest I’ve noticed that when I changed the source file for the favicon (using the action) on my “Master” page it automatically updated all the other pages EXCEPT the home / index page, why is that please ?
I noticed that Safari was expecting a favicon.ico file in the Activity
window so thought that might be it.
I suspect the home page has become detached from the Master somehow,
if you change any of the settings in the Action on the child page then
it becomes detached from the Master. You will need to remove the
Action from the Master and the home page and reapply it.
Hope this helps.
Joe
On 4 Sep 2008, at 14:33, Roger Burton wrote:
That’s clever Joe, how did you do that -it worked … why ?
Out of interest I’ve noticed that when I changed the source file for
the favicon (using the action) on my “Master” page it automatically
updated all the other pages EXCEPT the home / index page, why is
that please ?
Ok the detachment is only relative to the “Action” then (I may have changed the favicon file in the child by mistake and then realised and changed it in the master) - so it’s no big deal…
Can I add, all you need to do on our hosting is to manually upload a file called favicon.ico (making sure the graphic itself is correctly set up that is).
When that file is automatically uploaded into the public_html directory alongside your index page, the icon will display in the browser bar.
On 4 Sep 2008, at 14:16, Joe Billings wrote:
Very strange. It’s a long shot but try calling the file favicon.ico
and placing it alongside your HTML files, not in the Resources folder.
While I can’t speak for any technical wrinkles of your hosting setup,
there is actually “magic behavior” in IE and Safari (maybe other
browsers as well) that could be responsible for this observation. If
you look in your error logs on a site that does not have a
favicon.ico in the site root, you will see many many instances of 404
from IE and Safari looking for this file.
In some cases it is necessary to put the ico in both places or use
an .htaccess trick, because some browsers refuse to believe that the
file is where you say it is (using a link tag).
Walter
On Sep 5, 2008, at 12:14 PM, David Owen wrote:
Roger,
Can I add, all you need to do on our hosting is to manually upload
a file called favicon.ico (making sure the graphic itself is
correctly set up that is).
When that file is automatically uploaded into the public_html
directory alongside your index page, the icon will display in the
browser bar.