Date sent: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 11:23:50 +0000
From: Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [SLUG] what is favicon.ico
> Andrew Macks wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Ben Donohue wrote:
> >
> > > "get /blahblah/favicon.ico http/1.0" 404 172
> > >
> > > obviously i don't have a favicon.ico hence the 404 file not found.
> > > but why is the search engine or whatever looking for a favicon.ico?
> > > beats me. i know i could make one but...
> >
> > When an IE (urk!) user tries to bookmark this site this icon file is
> > requested to put next to the bookmark in their 'Favourites'. I was
> > tempted to put a "Download Netscape Now!" icon in it's place :P
> >
> > Upon failing to find favicon.ico in the current directory, it usually
> > tries the root (/) of the site aswell.
> >
> > [thinks evil things] :P
>
> Me too!. How does one generate a .ico file? It would be nice to
> have an anti-Micros~1 favicon.ico to place in every web accessible
> directory I have :-).
Simple way.....generate your icon and save as a bitmap format, but with
the extension of ICO.
Aussie
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