favicon confusion

2013-03-08 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
I am trying to find the best strategy for getting a favicon to appear on various web sites that I maintain. The problem is that every browser seems to have its own way of handling them. Some time ago all you had to do was put a file called favicon.ico into the root directory of the web page an

Re: favicon confusion

2013-03-08 Thread John Williams
In article , John Rickman Iyonix wrote: > But to get this on every page means having to put the code into > hundreds of html files. Hence WebChange! http://www.webchange.co.uk/ Thank you, Vince! John

Re: favicon confusion

2013-03-08 Thread Brian Howlett
On 8 Mar, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: > For NetSurf I use > > in the section. But to get this on every page means having to > put the code into hundreds of html files. FWIW on my web site I have favicon.ico in the root directory, and Netsurf displays it to the left of the address bar. This is

Re: favicon confusion

2013-03-08 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Brian Howlett wrote > On 8 Mar, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >> For NetSurf I use >> >> in the section. But to get this on every page means having to >> put the code into hundreds of html files. > FWIW on my web site I have favicon.ico in the root directory, and > Netsurf displays it to the l

Re: favicon confusion

2013-03-08 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
John Rickman Iyonix wrote >> FWIW on my web site I have favicon.ico in the root directory, and >> Netsurf displays it to the left of the address bar. This is using a >> recent development version of Netsurf - which version are you on? > This does not seem to work for me on NetSurf. I am using #9

Re: favicon confusion

2013-03-08 Thread Brian Howlett
On 8 Mar, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: > Does your favicon get picked up by html in sub directories? It isn't in the HTML code anywhere. > Perhaps you could post a link to your website so I could have a look? http://www.brianhowlett.me.uk/ -- Brian Howlett ---

Re: favicon confusion

2013-03-08 Thread Chris Young
On Fri, 08 Mar 2013 16:25:07 GMT, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: > Mystery solved - I develop my web pages "offline" using relative > reerences to files. NetSurf behaves differently in this "mode" with > files and does not pick up the common favicon. > > It behaves the same as you describe when acc

Re: favicon confusion

2013-03-08 Thread John Rickman Iyonix
Brian Howlett wrote > On 8 Mar, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: >> Does your favicon get picked up by html in sub directories? > It isn't in the HTML code anywhere. >> Perhaps you could post a link to your website so I could have a look? > http://www.brianhowlett.me.uk/ Thanks Brian Ii is a bit

Re: favicon confusion

2013-03-08 Thread Richard Porter
On 8 Mar 2013 John Rickman Iyonix wrote: > Brian Howlett wrote: >> FWIW on my web site I have favicon.ico in the root directory, and >> Netsurf displays it to the left of the address bar. This is using a >> recent development version of Netsurf - which version are you on? > This does not seem

Re: favicon confusion

2013-03-10 Thread Tim Hill
In article , Chris Young wrote: > On Fri, 08 Mar 2013 16:25:07 GMT, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: > > Mystery solved - I develop my web pages "offline" using relative > > reerences to files. NetSurf behaves differently in this "mode" with > > files and does not pick up the common favicon. That's be

Re: favicon confusion

2013-03-10 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
On 10 Mar at 15:31, Tim Hill wrote: > In article > , > Chris Young wrote: > > On Fri, 08 Mar 2013 16:25:07 GMT, John Rickman Iyonix wrote: > > > > Mystery solved - I develop my web pages "offline" using relative > > > reerences to files. NetSurf behaves differently in this "mode" > > > with fil

Re: favicon confusion

2013-03-11 Thread Tim Hill
In article , Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote: > On 10 Mar at 15:31, Tim Hill wrote: > > In article > > , > > Chris Young wrote: [Snip] > > > > Tried that but using the filer doesn't seem to work at all. Placing > > favicon.ico in the root of the disc seems to be ignored by browsers > > inc., NetSurf.