![]() To see it in IE for Mac you need to sacrifice an Intel CPU and do a favicon dance. In Mozilla and its progeny you should see it just fine automatically, and possibly in Safari though I don’t have that handy to test. To see it in Internet Explorer, bookmark this site (which you should do anyway). Due to popular demand there is a new favicon (you may need to reload that link directly to see it). ( Some examples of favicons.) I believe Internet Explorer was the first to implement this. As far as I know, it’s not a standard of any kind (and if it was it’d be a badly implemented one) but it’s a widely supported feature in modern browsers that allows a site to specify a small graphic or icon to go next to its address in the address bar and theoretically as the icon for the page when it is bookmarked as well. For aforementioned reasons they weren’t applicable to me, so I set out to find a clean way to do this on Windows without spending any moolah.Īt this point someone is probably wondering what in the world a favicon is. I was jealous as a whip (can a whip be jealous?) when Noel posted instructions detailing how to do it on a Mac. This is partially due to working within the constraints of 16 by 16 pixels, but more so that until now I haven’t found a good way to generate said icons on Windows. To clarify, I love the idea and the little icons on my Mozilla tabs are nifty, but I hate having to make them. ![]() I’m going to make a confession: I can’t stand favicons.
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