the troubles with favicons

Opera and FF typically will work when this issue arises but will not
work within IE a lot of the times. Now lets for example start with
something simple to which I will be using my site as an example as I
normally do :o)
we have a favicon thats is somewhere in the head
'

This will not show up in IE but will show up in other browsers, so I
then check Microsoft sites to see how they do it.
My results:
from live.com
from msn.com
Now what could be the difference between what didn't work for me, but
will work somehow for Microsoft. After fooling around this is what I
tried


which works for some unexplainable reason unless I am just caching the
results of playing around with it a few different times, this was
tested within IE7 and seemed to have worked for me.
If need be check out http://joshknutson.net/index.cfm to let me know
if this doesn't work with ie6 and such

Re: the troubles with favicons

Emergence wrote:

> Opera and FF typically will work when this issue arises but will not
> work within IE a lot of the times.

Favicons for IE6 and lower only show up when you bookmark the site. And
then disappear when you clear the browser's cache...

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Re: the troubles with favicons

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:55:18 GMT
Emergence scribed:

>
> which works for some unexplainable reason unless I am just caching the
> results of playing around with it a few different times, this was
> tested within IE7 and seemed to have worked for me.
> If need be check out http://joshknutson.net/index.cfm to let me know
> if this doesn't work with ie6 and such

Favicons don't work in ie6 at all. Yes, there may be some _temporary_
conditions under which you will see one in the address bar, but that hardly
constitutes "working".

I haven't really checked ie7. However, if it depends upon what's in the
cache and/or bookmarks, it doesn't _work_ there, either.

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