A question on Favicon.

[bernie]

It does not work on a local machine. Is this as a result of some www service etc. needing to be enabled on the local machine? Just curious, would be nice to test locally before uploading.

Bernie

jscheuer1 Replied

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Originally Posted by bernie
A qustion on Favicon.

It does not work on a local machine. Is this as a result of some www service etc. needing to be enabled on the local machine? Just curious, would be nice to test locally before uploading.

That's pretty much the issue. If you had an intranet, you could test it out there. Also, you could try the absolute local path to the favicon in a:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://url/favicon.ico">

tag, then some browsers (FF and Opera, at least) may show it, example of an absolute local path:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="file://localhost/C:/webstuff/test/favicon.ico">

[deficit]

If you are using IE, IE has issues with favicons anyways. Sometimes they work, and sometimes they don't. Sometimes they'll be working fine in IE, and break for no other reason other than the fact that IE is junk. IE is moody - especially with favicons, and it doesn't necessarily mean anything is wrong if it doesn't work in IE... if you really want to make sure it works, test it with firefox or opera.

EDIT: favicons will work locally without putting them on localhost or an intranet, and without using absolute paths if tested in firefox.