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From: HeirGringo on 2 Mar 2006 02:16 Hi Weavers, A direct quote from Microsoft re: the usage of favicons: "The only way a shortcut icon appears on a user's Favourites menu and Address bar is if the user chooses to add your page as a favourite." My task, however, is to have the company logo (ico file) appear on all of our websites pages. My understainding is that this can only happen if a site vistor adds every page to their favourites! (which will not happen of ocurse) Is anybody aware of any ways to overcome this limitation, in IE particularly. Thanks.
From: Tim G on 2 Mar 2006 02:42 "HeirGringo" <HeirGringo(a)tellfable.com> wrote in message news:du663n$okt$1(a)forums.macromedia.com... > Hi Weavers, > > A direct quote from Microsoft re: the usage of favicons: > > "The only way a shortcut icon appears on a user's Favourites menu and > Address bar is if the user chooses to add your page as a favourite." > > My task, however, is to have the company logo (ico file) appear on all of > our websites pages. My understainding is that this can only happen if a > site > vistor adds every page to their favourites! (which will not happen of > ocurse) You're misunderstanding how favicons work. If you put the .ico file in the root of your site, any time someone adds *any* page in your site to their favourites, your favicon will appear anywhere on the site. tim
From: HeirGringo on 2 Mar 2006 02:51 Thanks Tim, however I am not really misunderstanding them, I am just in a position where I may have to use a "different" approach - one where you actually add: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="blah" type="image/x-icon"> to your webistes pages (in an include in our case) Are you saying that "all page support" is only available using the root directory approach? Problem is we may not be able to access this directory (or may, still awaiting an answer) Cheers. "Tim G" <webservicesNOSPAM(a)pactumgroup.com> wrote in message news:du67lb$qgj$1(a)forums.macromedia.com... > > "HeirGringo" <HeirGringo(a)tellfable.com> wrote in message > news:du663n$okt$1(a)forums.macromedia.com... > > Hi Weavers, > > > > A direct quote from Microsoft re: the usage of favicons: > > > > "The only way a shortcut icon appears on a user's Favourites menu and > > Address bar is if the user chooses to add your page as a favourite." > > > > My task, however, is to have the company logo (ico file) appear on all of > > our websites pages. My understainding is that this can only happen if a > > site > > vistor adds every page to their favourites! (which will not happen of > > ocurse) > > You're misunderstanding how favicons work. If you put the .ico file in the > root of your site, any time someone adds *any* page in your site to their > favourites, your favicon will appear anywhere on the site. > > tim > >
From: Tim G on 2 Mar 2006 02:58 "HeirGringo" <HeirGringo(a)tellfable.com> wrote in message news:du686g$r25$1(a)forums.macromedia.com... > Thanks Tim, however I am not really misunderstanding them, I am just in a > position where I may have to use a "different" approach - one where you > actually add: > > <link rel="shortcut icon" href="blah" type="image/x-icon"> > > to your webistes pages (in an include in our case) > > Are you saying that "all page support" is only available using the root > directory approach? Problem is we may not be able to access this directory > (or may, still awaiting an answer) That would be a problem, yes. Then you would need to hard-link to your pages. tim
From: HeirGringo on 2 Mar 2006 03:09
>>Then you would need to hard-link to your pages. I wonder why sitepoint (www.sitepoint.com) have <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" /> on all their pages given that, as you say, having the ico file in the root directory should do the trick? "Tim G" <webservicesNOSPAM(a)pactumgroup.com> wrote in message news:du68j5$rhr$1(a)forums.macromedia.com... > > "HeirGringo" <HeirGringo(a)tellfable.com> wrote in message > news:du686g$r25$1(a)forums.macromedia.com... > > Thanks Tim, however I am not really misunderstanding them, I am just in a > > position where I may have to use a "different" approach - one where you > > actually add: > > > > <link rel="shortcut icon" href="blah" type="image/x-icon"> > > > > to your webistes pages (in an include in our case) > > > > Are you saying that "all page support" is only available using the root > > directory approach? Problem is we may not be able to access this directory > > (or may, still awaiting an answer) > > That would be a problem, yes. Then you would need to hard-link to your > pages. > > tim > > |