http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/18/add-favicons-to-websites-without-one/ A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:48:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/18/add-favicons-to-websites-without-one/#comment-469604 James Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:15:21 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5408#comment-469604 Why are you using a program to add favicons? You can do it all in the head tag (substitute > and < for ^ in real code): ^head profile="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/profile"^ ^link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="http://example.com/myicon.png"^ […] ^/head^ This is portable between browsers and works with any picture file format, not just .ico. You can even use a .gif for an animated favicon; see harveyserv.ath.cx/redx, which uses a pulsing red X. Why are you using a program to add favicons?
You can do it all in the head tag (substitute > and < for ^ in real code):
^head profile=”http://www.w3.org/2005/10/profile”^
^link rel=”icon”
type=”image/png”
href=”http://example.com/myicon.png”^
[…]
^/head^
This is portable between browsers and works with any picture file format, not just .ico. You can even use a .gif for an animated favicon; see harveyserv.ath.cx/redx, which uses a pulsing red X.

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