Safari supports Favicon

'hey how do you get that icon to show up in Safari'

[EliteWeb]

I was just asked how I got my little Mac Pirate icon to show up in the address bar on the Safari browser. Looks like its supported :D Neeto so now more mac people will be doing favicon.ico :D

[Brett_Tabke]

That too bad, or too good depending on how you look at it.

Does it read it from the root of the site, or just from the meta tag - or both?

[Brad]

I think from the root. The ones on my site are showing up and I never knew there was a meta tag.

BTW what is the tag syntax, please?

[transistor]

For a quick example, just do a "view source" of this page right here:

<link REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="/favicon.ico">

The icon can be anywhere just make sure that the HREF points to the icon.

I think Safari somehow supports better the FAVICON:
I can see the FAVICON of WebMasterWorld in both Mozilla and Safari, but I noticed that www.macintouch.com FAVICON shows up in Safari, but not in Mozilla.

My guess is that it has to do with the icon format, not sure what, maybe colors, size...

[railthinner]

It appears to me that placing 16x16 favicon.ico in the root folder works for Safari and placing a .gif or .ico where you want using the link method posted by transistor works in Mozilla.

[scottspence]

But...

I think it supports it badly. Not sending a User Agent perhaps?

[webmasterworld.com...]

Cheers

Scott