I have a favicon setup for my website and blog.
Everything works fine on my Mac in Safari and Firefox.
At work I use a PC and Firefox, it works there too.
But today I was using one of our open use PCs and IE7, my favicon isn't showing on my website or the blog. I'm seeing other favicons from other sites (like this one) but not mine. On my sites I'm seeing the IE logo instead of my icon.

Anyone know why this would be happening?

MS implementation of favicons was to use it only for saved favourites, it was the other browsers who took it differently and decided to show it all the time in the address bar. IE may not have decided on showing favicons on all sites, only on favourites.

If you hold down SHIFT and drag and drop the IE icon into the address bar (where http:... is), the page should reload with the favicon if the site has one.

Unfortunately it's not a permanent solution as I think it resorts back to IE's logo when you browse through the pages of the sites. It's just something people usually live without in IE even though it adds a nice touch to your site.

Also be sure to have these lines in your webpages, inserted into the HEAD element, although it sometimes doesn't make a difference.

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

You can use other image formats like jpeg, png, gif, etc.

Cheers,


MC