Favicon

[Mort]

Dude, after one refresh, it worked. You are awesome!

Thanks to everyone that replied, I appreciate it all!

[mwinter]

With that location, best to use:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://fourdegrees.net/urlcon.ico">

I'd say '/urlcon.ico' would be best, but it doesn't really matter just as long as it works.

IE is the real slowpoke when it comes to recognizing these icons

I get the impression that IE tends to freeze favicons in the cache, rather than updating them like other items. Though you can force user agents to revalidate a document by hitting Refresh, I assume IE doesn't include favicons in that update.

Mike

[jscheuer1]

I get the impression that IE tends to freeze favicons in the cache

If only. The behavior of IE with favicons is inscrutable to me and I use IE as my primary these days owing to its being the widest used browser, not because I prefer it. In my experience, once you coax IE into recognizing a favicon or, if by chance and I mean chance with a capital 'C', it does so on its own, it soon loses track of said favicon. Alternatively, no matter what you do, NS7.2 and FF seem to always just find the favicon if it is associated in one of the approved ways with a page.

[MoboMan]

I agree - the whole favicon thing is a PITA!

I have tried every conceivable combination in this thread (and others) with absolutely no luck whatsover - now securely filed in room 101!

... sulking off into the sunset ....

[fadman]

try using the exact root path in the tag. Example: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://my_site/image/favicon.ico" /> I changed mine to this and it worked right away