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Re: Favicon not displaying?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:36:53 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Ross Crawford wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Constantine Hannaher wrote:
> > In lugnet.admin.general, Ross Crawford wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > 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 simply look for it like Firefox and Camino and Safari and Opera to display
> > it (in the location bar), so it seems like the problem might have been with your
> > configuration or something, Ross...
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> Well, it's a little weird actually - I checked my cache, and
> http://news.lugnet.com/favicon.ico was there, so I navigated to the URL (and it
> displayed fine, including the icon in the address bar), and hit shift-refresh
> for good measure, but it still wouldn't display on news.lugnet.com pages, even
> if I bookmarked it. So I cleared my cache, and did shift-refresh, and now it
> does display. I guess my cache copy got screwed up somehow, and shift-refresh
> wasn't enough to fix it.
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> ROSCO
I've noticed that there is a bug in the way FF deals with favicons. Not sure
what effect it his generally but they can get completely messed up in the
bookmarks. eg. for me the DailyWTF has the ABC Tv logo but ABC has nothing. It
could all be related to this or maybe not at all ;)
Tim
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