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Posted by Christopher Seo (Member # 7) on 05-27-2004, 11:20 AM:

I just noticed my IE address bar now displays a little "F-T" icon rather than the generic Microsoft one. Did this just happen, or have I been oblivious?

Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 05-27-2004, 11:31 AM:

Mine used to have the FT, and it was also on my favorites. But it is gone from both now.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 05-27-2004, 12:33 PM:

It's called a "favicon" and I put it there at least 4 months ago, if not more. I made it a bit big, and I may make a new one that is the exact Favicon size (teeny tiny). I have noticed that on the Avant browser it will come and go. But Avant is a skin for IE, so I don't know if that is an IE problem or not. It should always show up in the address bar, but getting it on your bookmarks (or favorites) drop down menu is tricky at best. Only Avant even tries to do that, and no Mac browser has that capability yet (that I know of).[av=a]

Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 05-27-2004, 12:39 PM:

Joe, I get a C-T for Cinematour, and its on my favorites, but I didnt make it happen, it just happened. [Confused]

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 05-27-2004, 12:41 PM:

What browser are ya using, spanky?[av=k]

Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 05-27-2004, 01:21 PM:

IE 6.0

Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 05-27-2004, 01:25 PM:

It doesn't work with Lynx. Fix it. Now. [Mad]

Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 05-27-2004, 01:46 PM:

Joe, "Safari" supports favicons. The F-T favicon doesn't really work all the time on it.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 05-27-2004, 02:40 PM:

I look at FT on 3 different computers -- one using IE6, and the other two are still on IE5 because I'm too tired to download the update. The FT logo only works on one of the IE5 machines. Don't know why, but don't care either. As long as I can read the latest posts from KD, I'm satisfied. [Big Grin]

Posted by Dan Chilton (Member # 2288) on 05-27-2004, 04:17 PM:

Joe, is your favicon compiled with the 16x16 and the 32x32 icon? I know that IE has had a bug for many years wherein a favicon won't showup unless it's already been added to your favorites (bookmarks).

Posted by Joshua Lott (Member # 240) on 05-27-2004, 05:16 PM:

I am using IE 6 and it doesn't show up.

Tried by adding to favorites and that didn't do it either.

Posted by Christopher Duvall (Member # 284) on 05-27-2004, 06:44 PM:

I put in my favorite (IE6) and it showed up when I returned to the site. I removed the link from favorites and it stayed.

Posted by Jon Miller (Member # 163) on 05-27-2004, 06:54 PM:

"Favicon" support in Mozilla Firefox 0.8 for Mac OS X, which I use most often, is intermittent and inconsistent. A few icons for sites in my Personal Toolbar stay put, like the "F-T", for example. Some icons will show up in the URL field and tabs, but don't show up in Personal Toolbar links.

The strangest behavior I've found is with eBay's icon...I have a list of searches at my disposal in the Sidebar; sometimes the icon "sticks" to a particular search link, sometimes the icon doesn't, but frequently the icon will appear after a link is clicked, then disappear when the browser is relaunched. Strange.

Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 05-27-2004, 09:21 PM:

Favicons come and go with IE. I don't know why, but Joe needs to get Microsoft to fix that.

Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 05-27-2004, 10:31 PM:

Works with Opera 7.5 for the Mac OS X

Steve

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 05-28-2004, 12:22 AM:

Hmmm. I've never seen that icon on my IE6.0. And F-T has been on my favorites list for years.

Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 05-28-2004, 01:12 AM:

Favicons can disappear if you clear your cache.

They also won't necessarily work if the site is not bookmarked or if the icon is changed after the bookmark is made. So if you've had the site bookmarked forever, delete it and re-bookmark it to get the favicon.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 05-28-2004, 03:58 AM:

A better favicon file has been added to the server (it looks exactly the same as the old one). In Safari you'll need to find a 3rd party app like Onyx to reset the "URL icons", because once safari sees a favicon, it is forever there and if the site changes, it doesn't. It will also be interesting to see if improvements are made in IE and the such. THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE![av=m]

Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 06-01-2004, 01:56 PM:

My Favicon came back today. I didnt make any changes to anything. Joe, I agree with you, this is very important. My Favicon being there directly affects my film presentation. [Big Grin]