Animated FAVICONS in Internet Explorer (IE)??

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Bob - 17 Sep 2004 15:39 GMT

Hello,

Anyone know if Internet Explorer is capable of supporting ANIMATED
favicons? I have seen examples of animated favicons in Netscape and
Mozilla, but no luck with IE.

Netscape/Mozilla supports ANIMATED favicons via the specification of
<link rel="shortcut icon" href=... type="image/gif"> tag, as depicted
in the following site: http://skypilot.projectit.com/ . This approach
also works with a host of other formats with Netscape & Mozilla.

Thanks,
Bob

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Ralph Fox - 17 Sep 2004 21:40 GMT

> Anyone know if Internet Explorer is capable of supporting ANIMATED
> favicons? I have seen examples of animated favicons in Netscape and
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> in the following site: http://skypilot.projectit.com/ . This approach
> also works with a host of other formats with Netscape & Mozilla.

IE only supports Windows icon (.ico) image files for favicons,
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/Author/dhtml/howto/ShortcutIcon.asp
and Windows icon images are not animated.

Netscape/Mozilla support a number of different image formats
including Windows icon, GIF and PNG.

http://users.sisna.com/mcjbrown/tips/favicon.html

| Mozilla makes the use of Favicons much easier than
| Internet Explorer as it offers a wider range of file
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| types so that a broader audience can view the page
| icon.

| If IE could follow Mozilla's lead (fat chance), it
| would be so much easier, but no use dreaming about
| that.

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Cheers,
Ralph

"There is only one boss, the customer. And he can fire everybody in
the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money
somewhere else." -- Sam Walton

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digitor - 20 Sep 2004 14:55 GMT

yeah microsoft calls them emoticons
just use that as your search word

> Hello,
>
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> Thanks,
> Bob

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MikeJ - 21 Sep 2004 02:50 GMT

favicons are the lil icons that appear at the left of the URL.
The tag is somewhat similar with IE to that of the Netscape tag
but (microsoft is not into standards) I contradict myself here
by saying there is a major diffence that, I have read, must be
adheard to:

your href must be to ".ico" so your 16x16 pixle image would be
"image.ico" in order to show up in the IE browser. It may also
have to be created in a MSoft icon maker app, but I can't say
that with any authority. See below:
<LINK REL="SHORTCUT
ICON"HREF="http://www.yourdomain.com/images/image.ico">

<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON"
HREF="http://www.manstown.com/graphaine/mtownicon.gif"> is what I
used at my page. No big whoop.

Emoticons are the fun, inane, goofy inane gifs of smiles and
frowns that may or may not be animated but will appear in emails.

i haven't tried the animated emoticon in the url trick yet but I
will, dang it!!

My source: http://www.codelifter.com/main/javascript/favicon1.html
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> yeah microsoft calls them emoticons
> just use that as your search word
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>> Thanks,
>> Bob

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John A. - 29 Sep 2004 14:54 GMT

>favicons are the lil icons that appear at the left of the URL.
>The tag is somewhat similar with IE to that of the Netscape tag
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>i haven't tried the animated emoticon in the url trick yet but I
>will, dang it!!

I use:

<link REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="/favicon.ico">
<link REL="icon" HREF="/favicon.png" TYPE="image/png">

I have an ico with multiple size and color combos for visitors to have
nice looking shortcuts no matter where they put them. And I have a png
version that Moz puts up instead that's more nicely colored.

On some other pages on the site the "icon" link points to an image
particular to the page. I don't have ico files for those so still use
the same one in those pages. NS/Moz/FF use has its privileges.

JA

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Animated FAVICONS in Internet Explorer (IE)??