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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Mr.Garibaldi on February 15, 2004, 11:36:57 pm

Title: No Hard Light Productions favicon?
Post by: Mr.Garibaldi on February 15, 2004, 11:36:57 pm: Hey all! This website and forum seems to be the top of the line in webpage development. And a lot of us seem to be using mozilla/firebird/firefox i.e. browsers that DO support favicons (little icon next to URL and bookmarks).
But this page seems to have no favicon yet?! While I am not artistically gifted enough to make one I'm sure someone out there is. Maybe this thread can be an area for users to post a favicon idea and get a webmaster to install it?
Title: No Hard Light Productions favicon?
Post by: mikhael on February 16, 2004, 12:09:02 am: All we need is THIS: (http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/forums/images/on.gif)

Oh, and its 'Ivanova', not 'Ivonova'. ;)
Title: Re: No Hard Light Productions favicon?
Post by: Sandwich on February 16, 2004, 12:30:24 am: Quote
Originally posted by Mr.Garibaldi
Hey all! This website and forum seems to be the top of the line in webpage development. And a lot of us seem to be using mozilla/firebird/firefox i.e. browsers that DO support favicons (little icon next to URL and bookmarks).
But this page seems to have no favicon yet?! While I am not artistically gifted enough to make one I'm sure someone out there is. Maybe this thread can be an area for users to post a favicon idea and get a webmaster to install it?

*gruffy old geezer voice* Back in my day, favicons were on a per-domain basis - you'd stick a favicon.gif (.ico?) on the root dir of a domain (www.blahblah.com/favicon.gif) and the browser'd take care of the rest.

What's the latest in favicon integration technology? I have a hazy recollection of it being selectable via HTML tags, but I haven't a clue as to what the code is.
Title: No Hard Light Productions favicon?
Post by: Liberator on February 16, 2004, 12:42:33 am: Once upon a time, Gamespy used their's since it's their server, but even that seems to have been taken down.

I usually assign it FS2 icon manually.
Title: No Hard Light Productions favicon?
Post by: Mr.Garibaldi on February 16, 2004, 12:46:25 am: a quick search shows there is a tag in the < head > area:
< link rel="shortcut icon" >
I got this from www.favicon.com

gahhh *changes signature* I am suprised noone in the firstones.com forums caught that misspell yet :)

Put spaces between the lesser and greater than signs because the vB was parsing the HTML tags. // Setekh
Title: No Hard Light Productions favicon?
Post by: Setekh on February 16, 2004, 02:33:23 am: Okay, how does this look: bookmark this page ("http://3dap.com/hlp/staff/setekh/favicon_test.htm") (ignore all the broken image links). The icon turns up for me on the bookmark list, but not at the top right of my IE window... :nervous:
Title: No Hard Light Productions favicon?
Post by: Kamikaze on February 16, 2004, 03:05:40 am: Nifty, works for me on firefox 0.8

Edit: Actually it doesn't work in the bookmark menu, only next to the URL
Title: No Hard Light Productions favicon?
Post by: Setekh on February 16, 2004, 03:37:03 am: Hmmm. Okay, it now works on IE's bookmark list and address bar, and I can see it in Mozilla's address bar, but Firefox's address bar is displaying the GameSpy icon for me. :wtf: Anyone else?
Title: No Hard Light Productions favicon?
Post by: Nico on February 16, 2004, 04:03:29 am: works fine on mozilla, at least.
Title: No Hard Light Productions favicon?
Post by: Mr.Garibaldi on February 16, 2004, 08:39:56 am: I think gamespy has some thing where any address associated with 3dap.com has the gamespy favicon.
Maybe you can do it on the dynamic4.gamespy.com addresses?
Internet Explorer never got favicons right yet... they work 10% of the time and maybe less... only non-IE browsers do favicons right almost all the time.