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Dinsdale
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      07-08-2006
It works in every other browser, on both Mac and Windows OS.


http://www.24hourhotline.net

Yes, I have a reference to the icon in my <head>.

I can't find anything related to this on the MSDN site - any clues?

Yes, I have this site bookmarked, as well.

I can see other favicons in IE7, such as on the Google site. But I
can't see any reference to this icon in their code, either.

Thanks.

 
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Beauregard T. Shagnasty
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      07-08-2006
Dinsdale wrote:

> It works in every other browser, on both Mac and Windows OS.
>
> hxxp://www.24hourhotline.net


I was going to look at your code, but as soon as you screwed with my
browser - maximizing it - I decided that was enough.

I own my browser, not you.

> Thanks.


You're most welcome.

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Jonathan N. Little
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      07-08-2006
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> Dinsdale wrote:
>
>> It works in every other browser, on both Mac and Windows OS.
>>
>> hxxp://www.24hourhotline.net

>
> I was going to look at your code, but as soon as you screwed with my
> browser - maximizing it - I decided that was enough.
>
> I own my browser, not you.
>
>> Thanks.

>
> You're most welcome.
>

luckily the JavaScript was so old it didn't even try to resize my
browser windows.... Dinsdale (sounds like a Monty Python line) dump the
archaic Dynamic Drive crap. (Man I's surly tonight!)

Small thing but for XHTML this in not terminated correctly

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.24hourhotline.net/favicon.ico" >

should be:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.24hourhotline.net/favicon.ico" />

Not sure if IE7 is the same as its predecessors but IE like single
format 16x16 favicons and generally 16-color.

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Beauregard T. Shagnasty
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      07-08-2006
Jonathan N. Little wrote:

> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>> I was going to look at your code, but as soon as you screwed with my
>> browser - maximizing it - I decided that was enough.
>>
>> I own my browser, not you.

>
> luckily the JavaScript was so old it didn't even try to resize my
> browser windows.... Dinsdale (sounds like a Monty Python line) dump
> the archaic Dynamic Drive crap. (Man I's surly tonight!)


At this time, the maximizing code is gone from the page. <g>

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Dinsdale
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      07-08-2006
Jonathan:

Adding a forward slash didn't fix it. I even checked the code provided
to me by the site that generated the favicon.ico itself.

I also ran a favicon validator service I found here:

http://www.htmlkit.com/go/favicon/validator/

And it passed validation.

But what I've just noticed is, the actual favicon is 32x32. That's
what gets generated when you upload your image file here:

http://www.chami.com/html-kit/

They give you a 16x16 animated version (don't want to use that!), and a
16x16 PNG format as a preview.

But no 16x16 .ico file.

So, let's figure out how to get a static 16x16 .ico file produced.
What's behind this file conversion process, anyway? It's not actually
disguised as a bitmap format, I already tried.

Thanks.




Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> > Dinsdale wrote:
> >
> >> It works in every other browser, on both Mac and Windows OS.
> >>
> >> hxxp://www.24hourhotline.net

> >
> > I was going to look at your code, but as soon as you screwed with my
> > browser - maximizing it - I decided that was enough.
> >
> > I own my browser, not you.
> >
> >> Thanks.

> >
> > You're most welcome.
> >

> luckily the JavaScript was so old it didn't even try to resize my
> browser windows.... Dinsdale (sounds like a Monty Python line) dump the
> archaic Dynamic Drive crap. (Man I's surly tonight!)
>
> Small thing but for XHTML this in not terminated correctly
>
> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.24hourhotline.net/favicon.ico" >
>
> should be:
>
> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.24hourhotline.net/favicon.ico" />
>
> Not sure if IE7 is the same as its predecessors but IE like single
> format 16x16 favicons and generally 16-color.
>
> --
> Take care,
>
> Jonathan
> -------------------
> LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
> http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com


 
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Jonathan N. Little
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      07-08-2006
Dinsdale wrote:
> Jonathan:
>
> Adding a forward slash didn't fix it. I even checked the code provided
> to me by the site that generated the favicon.ico itself.
>
> I also ran a favicon validator service I found here:
>
> http://www.htmlkit.com/go/favicon/validator/
>
> And it passed validation.
>
> But what I've just noticed is, the actual favicon is 32x32. That's
> what gets generated when you upload your image file here:
>
> http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
>
> They give you a 16x16 animated version (don't want to use that!), and a
> 16x16 PNG format as a preview.
>
> But no 16x16 .ico file.
>
> So, let's figure out how to get a static 16x16 .ico file produced.
> What's behind this file conversion process, anyway? It's not actually
> disguised as a bitmap format, I already tried.
>
>


Actually it is a dual format ICO with 1 16x16@256-color and 1
32x32@256-color icon. I have a icon editor, Google for one, there are
many free ones out there or you can use the freeware IrfanView
(www.irfanview.com) to convert a 16x16 BMP to ICO.

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Dinsdale
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      07-08-2006
OK, back to square one.

So why doesn't this thing display in IE7?







Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> Dinsdale wrote:
> > Jonathan:
> >
> > Adding a forward slash didn't fix it. I even checked the code provided
> > to me by the site that generated the favicon.ico itself.
> >
> > I also ran a favicon validator service I found here:
> >
> > http://www.htmlkit.com/go/favicon/validator/
> >
> > And it passed validation.
> >
> > But what I've just noticed is, the actual favicon is 32x32. That's
> > what gets generated when you upload your image file here:
> >
> > http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
> >
> > They give you a 16x16 animated version (don't want to use that!), and a
> > 16x16 PNG format as a preview.
> >
> > But no 16x16 .ico file.
> >
> > So, let's figure out how to get a static 16x16 .ico file produced.
> > What's behind this file conversion process, anyway? It's not actually
> > disguised as a bitmap format, I already tried.
> >
> >

>
> Actually it is a dual format ICO with 1 16x16@256-color and 1
> 32x32@256-color icon. I have a icon editor, Google for one, there are
> many free ones out there or you can use the freeware IrfanView
> (www.irfanview.com) to convert a 16x16 BMP to ICO.
>
> --
> Take care,
>
> Jonathan
> -------------------
> LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
> http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com


 
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Jonathan N. Little
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      07-08-2006
Dinsdale wrote:
> OK, back to square one.
>
> So why doesn't this thing display in IE7?
>
>


Because the icon you are using has two versions within it, a 32x32@256
icon *and* 16x16@256. Strip out the 32x32@256 icon and it would work in IE.

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