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Re: Favicon not displaying?
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Wed, 26 Apr 2006 01:53:04 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Boger wrote:
In lugnet.admin.general, Ross Crawford wrote:
I've noticed the last few days, when viewing Lugnet posts in my browser, it no
longer displays the Lugnet logo favicon like it used to. Then I noticed the main
page still works. And while posting this I noticed the posting page works. On
close inspection, it appears the only pages that don't work are news.lugnet.com
pages. Maybe the favicon disappeared from there or something?

Seems to work for me using FF/Linux...  But when I tried it in IE/XP, the icon
didn't show up.  I've never used this browser for LUGNET before, so I don't know
if it used to work...

Maybe FF has cached it? Try after clearing the cache. I was using FF/XP, but it
doesnt work on IE/XP for me either.

http://news.lugnet.com/favicon.ico is still there, so AFAICT it should still
work.  Anyone know of anything else that needs to happen?

Not AFAIK. Unless it got corrupted or something? You can also specify it in the
header IIRC, but that's probably more trouble than it's worth.

ROSCO



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  Re: Favicon not displaying?
 
(...) My understanding is that IE in Windows will display the favicon only if the site is bookmarked, and then the display is in the Favorites list, not the URL field... the mere presence of the file as identified by Dan allows user agents that (...) (19 years ago, 26-Apr-06, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Favicon not displaying?
 
(...) Seems to work for me using FF/Linux... But when I tried it in IE/XP, the icon didn't show up. I've never used this browser for LUGNET before, so I don't know if it used to work... (URL) is still there, so AFAICT it should still work. Anyone (...) (19 years ago, 25-Apr-06, to lugnet.admin.general)

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