Favicon For IE

[justlukeyou]

Why is IE so crap?

I have spent around 2 months trying apply a Favicon to IE. It took ten minutes to apply it to Firefox and Chrome.

I have tried both of the following but cant get it to work. Does anyone have any suggestions please on how I can apply a Favicon on IE?

	<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.website.com/favicon.ico" />

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"/>

[ralph.m]

The issue is really how you are creating that file. You can't just take a .gif or .png file and change the extension. There is a free plugin for Photoshop for creating .ico files, and also some online sites that generate them for you. E.g.

plugin
http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/

online
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/
http://www.favicon.cc/
http://www.prodraw.net/favicon/index.php

Why is IE so crap?

It's made by Microsoft. That's what they specialise in.

[justlukeyou]

Thanks mate,

I have noticed that when I download a Favicon and add it to a folder on my computer I can see he image as a small preview however I couldn't with the original Favicon I had.

Do I need to use any specific code, would this work?

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"/>

[ralph.m]

That code is ok, but just make sure the favicon is placed in your root folder. Also, it sometimes takes a while for the fav to show up. It helps if you bookmark your site in your browser.