Re: Favicons
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 step...@perthprojects.com 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 k...@adopenstatic.comwrote: 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:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *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 chris.frederi...@hp.com 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: inline: image001.png
Re: Favicons
+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 joseph.coo...@gmail.comwrote: 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 step...@perthprojects.com 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 k...@adopenstatic.comwrote: 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:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *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 chris.frederi...@hp.com 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: -- Geoff Appleby Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/geoff.appleby inline: image001.png
Re: Favicons
IcoFX Looks like the ticket. Thanks, will check it out. :) On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Geoff Appleby geoff.appl...@gmail.comwrote: +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 joseph.coo...@gmail.comwrote: 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 step...@perthprojects.com 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 k...@adopenstatic.comwrote: 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:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *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 chris.frederi...@hp.com 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: -- Geoff Appleby Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/geoff.appleby inline: image001.png
RE: Favicons
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 Officehttp://office.com/preview From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] 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 geoff.appl...@gmail.commailto:geoff.appl...@gmail.com 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 joseph.coo...@gmail.commailto:joseph.coo...@gmail.com 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 step...@perthprojects.commailto:step...@perthprojects.com 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 k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com 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: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] 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 chris.frederi...@hp.commailto:chris.frederi...@hp.com 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:image001.png@01CF33F6.DDE55780] -- Geoff Appleby Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/geoff.appleby inline: image001.png
RE: Favicons
Andrew. You're the man! That site is awesome. I'd used IcoFX to create these before and my attempts were lousy. But that site lets you import a PNG, crop it, etc. then convert to a favicon. Amazing. So simple yet so powerful. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: http://www.sqldownunder.com/ www.sqldownunder.com From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA) Sent: Thursday, 27 February 2014 8:03 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: Favicons There's always http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Browser/IconEditor/Default.html 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 http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat Sent from the http://office.com/preview new Office From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] 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 geoff.appl...@gmail.com mailto:geoff.appl...@gmail.com 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 joseph.coo...@gmail.com mailto:joseph.coo...@gmail.com 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 step...@perthprojects.com mailto:step...@perthprojects.com 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 k...@adopenstatic.com mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com 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: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com ] 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 chris.frederi...@hp.com mailto:chris.frederi...@hp.com 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: -- Geoff Appleby Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/geoff.appleby image001.png
Re: Favicons
I agree! I didn't even get as far as installing IcoFX. Saw Greg's email, remembered I wanted an ico with all of the different sizes in it. Gave it a try. So easy. It even gives you the link html you need to show it. Thanks Andrew! On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 5:53 PM, GregAtGregLowDotCom g...@greglow.comwrote: Andrew. You’re the man! That site is awesome. I’d used IcoFX to create these before and my attempts were lousy. But that site lets you import a PNG, crop it, etc. then convert to a favicon. Amazing. So simple yet so powerful. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913fax SQL Down Under | Web: www.sqldownunder.com *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA) *Sent:* Thursday, 27 February 2014 8:03 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* RE: Favicons 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:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [ mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *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 geoff.appl...@gmail.com 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 joseph.coo...@gmail.com 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 step...@perthprojects.com 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 k...@adopenstatic.com 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:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *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 chris.frederi...@hp.com 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: -- Geoff Appleby Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/geoff.appleby inline: image001.png
Re: Favicons
Wow. That is amazing. Thanks for the link! On 27 February 2014 19:02, Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA) andrew.coa...@microsoft.com wrote: 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:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *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 geoff.appl...@gmail.com 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 joseph.coo...@gmail.com 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 step...@perthprojects.com 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 k...@adopenstatic.com 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:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *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 chris.frederi...@hp.com 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: -- Geoff Appleby Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/geoff.appleby inline: image001.png
Re: Favicons
Do you have this in your routes?
routes.IgnoreRoute({*favicon}, new { favicon =
@(.*/)?favicon.ico(/.*)? });
I do and the favicon appears to work.
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.comwrote:
Hey all,
Just wondering if anyone has actually figured out MVC web apps and the
Favicon.ico?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5620618/why-wont-the-fav-icon-show-up-in-ie-on-my-asp-net-mvc-site
That link shows no answer and I've scratched my head on this before and
given up.
I'm currently seeing this icon [image: Inline image 1]
and my link in my _layout file is thus
link href=http://www.lythixdesigns.com/favicon.ico; rel=shortcut icon
type=image/x-icon /
I've also tried relative path.
stumped,
Stephen
inline: Screenshot 2014-02-27 11.52.32.png
RE: Favicons
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:image001.png@01CF33CD.AC867940] [cid:image002.png@01CF33CD.AC867940] Cheers, Chris From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Thursday, 27 February 2014 2:55 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Favicons Hey all, Just wondering if anyone has actually figured out MVC web apps and the Favicon.ico? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5620618/why-wont-the-fav-icon-show-up-in-ie-on-my-asp-net-mvc-site That link shows no answer and I've scratched my head on this before and given up. I'm currently seeing this icon [Inline image 1] and my link in my _layout file is thus link href=http://www.lythixdesigns.com/favicon.ico; rel=shortcut icon type=image/x-icon / I've also tried relative path. stumped, Stephen inline: image001.pnginline: image002.pnginline: image003.png
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 chris.frederi...@hp.com 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: Cheers, Chris *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Thursday, 27 February 2014 2:55 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Favicons Hey all, Just wondering if anyone has actually figured out MVC web apps and the Favicon.ico? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5620618/why-wont-the-fav-icon-show-up-in-ie-on-my-asp-net-mvc-site That link shows no answer and I've scratched my head on this before and given up. I'm currently seeing this icon [image: Inline image 1] and my link in my _layout file is thus link href=http://www.lythixdesigns.com/favicon.ico; rel=shortcut icon type=image/x-icon / I've also tried relative path. stumped, Stephen inline: image002.pnginline: image003.pnginline: image001.png
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Weird. Still couldn't get it working locally so I changed my link tag from this link href=http//www.lythixdesigns.com/favicon.ico rel=shortcut icon type=image/x-icon / to this link href=http://www.lythixdesigns.com/favicon.ico?v2; rel=shortcut icon type=image/x-icon / and it started working locally immediately. I copied off the url they are using on the Microsoft website. Theirs leaves off the http: so starts with href=//www.mi which seemed odd. Based on my knowledge of how I used to trick Silverlight into not caching the xap file by changing the url (appending version) I think its definitely a caching issue. It's a shame hitting clear cache doesn't seem to do anything. thanks again Stephen On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Fredericks, Chris chris.frederi...@hp.com 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: Cheers, Chris *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Thursday, 27 February 2014 2:55 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Favicons Hey all, Just wondering if anyone has actually figured out MVC web apps and the Favicon.ico? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5620618/why-wont-the-fav-icon-show-up-in-ie-on-my-asp-net-mvc-site That link shows no answer and I've scratched my head on this before and given up. I'm currently seeing this icon [image: Inline image 1] and my link in my _layout file is thus link href=http://www.lythixdesigns.com/favicon.ico; rel=shortcut icon type=image/x-icon / I've also tried relative path. stumped, Stephen inline: image002.pnginline: image003.pnginline: image001.png
Re: Favicons
Also clear the WinINET cache especially if you've been using fiddler. On 27 February 2014 17:33, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: Weird. Still couldn't get it working locally so I changed my link tag from this link href=http//www.lythixdesigns.com/favicon.ico rel=shortcut icon type=image/x-icon / to this link href=http://www.lythixdesigns.com/favicon.ico?v2; rel=shortcut icon type=image/x-icon / and it started working locally immediately. I copied off the url they are using on the Microsoft website. Theirs leaves off the http: so starts with href=//www.mi which seemed odd. Based on my knowledge of how I used to trick Silverlight into not caching the xap file by changing the url (appending version) I think its definitely a caching issue. It's a shame hitting clear cache doesn't seem to do anything. thanks again Stephen On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Fredericks, Chris chris.frederi...@hp.com 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: Cheers, Chris *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Thursday, 27 February 2014 2:55 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Favicons Hey all, Just wondering if anyone has actually figured out MVC web apps and the Favicon.ico? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5620618/why-wont-the-fav-icon-show-up-in-ie-on-my-asp-net-mvc-site That link shows no answer and I've scratched my head on this before and given up. I'm currently seeing this icon [image: Inline image 1] and my link in my _layout file is thus link href=http://www.lythixdesigns.com/favicon.ico; rel=shortcut icon type=image/x-icon / I've also tried relative path. stumped, Stephen inline: image001.pnginline: image002.pnginline: image003.png
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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: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] 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 chris.frederi...@hp.commailto:chris.frederi...@hp.com 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:image001.png@01CF33E1.ABA10B30] inline: image001.png
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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 k...@adopenstatic.com 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:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *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 chris.frederi...@hp.com 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: inline: image001.png
Re: Favicons
In the old days. An ico file was just a bmp renamed. Might possibly work with png as well now. Davy Sent from my starfleet datapad. On 27 févr. 2014, at 07:55, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com 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 k...@adopenstatic.com 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:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *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 chris.frederi...@hp.com 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: image001.png
