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Is there anything else that I have to do to make it diaplay?
This is baffling, please elp if you can.
Thanks
Nath
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">
in the <head>
It may work or it may not... ho hum!
zoo
However I have read somewhere that it's a good way to find out how many people bookmark your site, by looking at your stats to see how many favicons are requested.
Recently I saw the following code recommended, so I may add it to the head sections of my own pages, just to see what happens:
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/ico" href="http://www.mydomain.com/favicon.ico" />
<link rel="icon" type="image/ico" href="http://www.mydomain.com/favicon.ico" />
(Unless of course someone here thinks it's useless!)
it's a good way to find out how many people bookmark your site, by looking at your stats to see how many favicons are requested.
No, unfortunately that's not the case. Mozilla, Opera, and I think Safari display your favicon automatically in the address bar, and if use tabs, on your tab.
IE doesn't do this, but is supposed to add the icon to your favorites listing, that's where that idea comes from, if only windows IE users visited your site, counting favicon hits would tell you something, as it is, it doesn't really tell you anything.
if only windows IE users visited your site, counting favicon hits would tell you something
When I check the stats at my various websites, it seems that IE is pretty consistently running at about 90% of all browser types.
But all in all I agree with you -- there are far better ways to interpret site visitors' data -- I just threw that out as something I'd read somewhere and wouldn't put too much stock in it as any kind of reliable benchmark...
It's amazing that so many people spend so much time on a 16x16 logo- sometimes more than they do on making their code validate! I find it gimmicky, and most of the time I can't tell what the thing is anyway!
It's amazing that so many people spend so much time on a 16x16 logo- sometimes more than they do on making their code validate!
If you think of it as a design challenge, getting a uniquely identifying graphic 16x16 pixels large using a very restricted color palette is a good exercise in minimalism. Now if only IE would actually display them the way they are supposed to be displayed...
