Re: HTML idea

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

favicon.ico

It's another Microsoft "we think we own the internet" thing.  It's totally
nonstandard, and anyone who runs a website will tell you about the
thousands of error logs from browsers grabbing the nonexistant file
favicon.ico.  The file itself is a microsoft ICON file (not a jpeg, not a
GIF).

  - Erik

On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, James Purchase wrote:

> Erik,
> 
> I don't know how they do it, but I notice that some web-sites have a way of
> causing a custom graphic to appear in the "address" line in at least MS
> Internet Explorer. For example, Fishlink Central, on their Aquarium
> Publications & Magazine page,
> (http://www.fishlinkcentral.com/publications.htm), displays a small graphic
> of an anglefish in the "address" line of my browser window (right in front
> for the "http" bit. I've tried looking at the HTML in Front Page, but it
> gives me no clue as to how this is done.
> 
> It's a "gimmick", but it's a neat one - would it be possible for our
> web-site to have a small graphic of an aquatic plant in the same place?
> 
> James Purchase
> Toronto
> 
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