There's always http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Browser/IconEditor/Default.html as well - online icon editor/creator.
Cheers Andrew Coates, ME, MCPD, MCSD MCTS, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, 1 Epping Road, NORTH RYDE NSW 2113 Ph: +61 (2) 9870 2719 * Mob +61 (416) 134 993 * Fax: +61 (2) 9870 2400 * http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat Sent from the new Office<http://office.com/preview> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Thursday, 27 February 2014 7:52 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Favicons IcoFX Looks like the ticket. Thanks, will check it out. :) On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Geoff Appleby <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: +1 IcoFX. Haven't needed to use it in a couple of years but it's simple but powerful. On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Joseph Cooney <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Iconfx or icofx (can't quite recall the name) was open source until recently and there are free versions still around. I think the gimp can make windows icons too. Joseph On Feb 27, 2014 4:55 PM, "Stephen Price" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Ok thanks. New can of worms. ;) It seems to be working (on a different computer atm) but when I dragged it to the taskbar (how you can pin a website) it shows a large version of the default one. I think I need to add those multiple sizes to the ico. If I edit my current one in VS it shows the small one but not alternate sizes (like how the default one does...) Which leads me to a new question, what's the best (easiest/cheapest) way to import images into an ico file. Any freebie ICO editors about? I don't fancy doing it by hand in Visual Studio. Hmm I wonder if VS has an import image in its editor? Not looked before... On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >From memory, if IE fails to find a favicon.ico file in the past, it doesn't >ask for one again (basically, why generate another request that will result in >a 404?) Not sure what the "timeout" period is, but if you bookmark the >site/add to favourites, it makes another request for favicon.ico. Cheers Ken From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Thursday, 27 February 2014 3:19 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Favicons Oh ok... I cleared the cache. I could see it with Chrome but not IE. Not sure what's up with that. Cached somewhere as you say but clearing the cache vis F12 dev tool menu didn't seem to help. Maybe need to close browser entirely. I added the route then took it out... so not sure if your screenshot was with or without. I think I'll add it back in and do some more testing. Looking with fiddler, it's not that its failing to download/find the favicon.ico file, it looks more like the browser isn't even asking for it. (IE11) thanks for the help. On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Fredericks, Chris <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: It may be local to you, a cached page somewhere. The icon is showing in IE11 on my desktop and in IE8 and Chrome 33.0 on my laptop: [cid:[email protected]] -- Geoff Appleby Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/geoff.appleby
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