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favicon and IE - Why won't it work? 1

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southbeach

southbeach

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I am working on site


I have a favicon.ico file in my root directory. I have added
Code: 
<link rel="icon" href="[URL unfurl="true"]https://tracking.haf.com/favicon.ico"[/URL] type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="[URL unfurl="true"]https://tracking.haf.com/favicon.ico"[/URL] type="image/x-icon" />
to page within the <head> tags.

FF works fine but I cannot get IE to work at all. No matter which version 6 or 7. I have even added site to my favorites and have clear history and removed temp files ...

No matter what I've tried, I just cannot get IE to display my favicon.

I hate giving up but after reading through dozens of documents on line and trying everything most of them suggest and spending all day and getting no where ... I am left with asking the question here.

Oh, please notice that I am using https not hppt ...

Thank you all in advance for your assistance!


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SouthBeach
The good thing about not knowing is the opportunity to learn - Yours truly, 2008.
 
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Secure server is due to nature of data rendered and favicon, well, my boss wants it :)



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SouthBeach
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Your favicon file has a problem. Probably the fact that its an animated gif that just had its extension changed.

It needs to be a true 16 or 256 color icon. Not a Gif but an actual ico file.

Firefox seems to be more forgiving than IE in this case.



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Correction to that, IE does not support animated favicons. Other browsers such as Firefox do.

You need to make it a standard icon not a converted gif.



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vacunita,

Thanks so much for the valuable information - You 'MUST' be correct since all I did was take my image, went to a site that allowed me to upload the image and produce the final favicon.ico file.

I am not sure how they do it other than simply shrinking the file and saving it with an ICO extension.

That being said, what should I use to create this ICO file?

Thanks!


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That being said, what should I use to create this ICO file?
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Any image editor and the site you already used to convert it. Or search for one of the many freeware (GIMP, IcoFX, etc.) or commercial icon editors.


The one I used most often is no longer available, so I typically just use an online converter.

Greg
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I use IconoMaker myself, from icon empire.

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