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Favicon.ico
  
 
Posted: Mar 13, 2010

The site icon is present (http://www.chatbots.org/favicon.ico) but in my MSIE8 it doesn’t appear on the browser tab, address bar or in the favourites menu. I haven’t checked with other browsers.

Tech info here might help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon

David
 

 
Posted: Mar 14, 2010
   [ # 1 ]

David,

This is just a snapshot as of Sun, Mar 14, 12:40pm:

It works with full animation on Firefox 3.5.8 Linux 32bit.

It did not work at all in Internet Explorer 7 Vista 32bit.

http://www.chatbots.org/favicon.ico is present separately
in Internet Explorer 8 Windows Server 2008 64bit
but with no animation. and it did not load with the site.


Compatibility issues are to be expected with a nice favicon.ico.
Hopefully, eventually it will resolve itself on all browsers.
 

 
Posted: Mar 14, 2010
   [ # 2 ]

Reproduced! We’re working on it grin
 

 
Posted: Mar 14, 2010
   [ # 3 ]

This should now be fixed. Internet Explorer indeed doesn’t support animated favicons.

I have now made two versions:

  - http://www.chatbots.org/favicon.ico (static)
  - http://www.chatbots.org/favicon.gif (animated)

And in the page I’ve included two URLs (based on this information):

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.chatbots.org/favicon.ico">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.chatbots.org/favicon.gif"> 

Firefox will show the animated gif and Explorer will ignore the gif and only show the static ico.
 

 
Posted: Mar 14, 2010
   [ # 4 ]

Yes.

Confirmed fixed on all platforms reported above
in the snapshot as of Sun, Mar 14, 12:40pm.


While on the subject of favicon.ico, here is an alternative solution:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.chatbots.org/favicon.ico">
<link rel="icon" type="image/ico" href="http://www.chatbots.org/favicon.ico"> 

This is added for discussion purposes only.  It is not a suggestion nor correction.
It is interesting to point out that the default IE favicon happens to be animated.
 

 
Posted: Mar 18, 2010
   [ # 5 ]

Working for me too!  grin

David
 

 
Posted: Mar 19, 2010
   [ # 6 ]

ok, glad we’ve solved this.

We’ll close the ‘bug area’ within Robitron shortly, and our bug section continues in the Chatbots.org bug forum:
http://www.chatbots.org/forum/viewforum/12/

Don’t hestitate you post ideas, suggestions, and bugs in the new area.
 

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