[mythtv-users] favicon.ico request for mythweb

Matt skd5aner at gmail.com
Sat Mar 11 23:19:45 UTC 2006


On 3/11/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 03/11/2006 04:25 AM, Myth User wrote:
> > save this to your mythweb folder
>
> I'll create a ticket (and include some of the below info).
>
> MythWeb should also be updated to include appropriate <link> elements in
> the document head.  Otherwise, for Firefox, the favicon.ico would have
> to be in the server's root directory.  By using <link>, the icon can be
> placed in the MythWeb directory (allowing a different icon for the
> "rest" of the server directories and making reliable installation much
> easier--it would work regardless of how the user configures MythWeb).
>
> Both of the following <link> elements should be included in the head
> (with the appropriate location--possibly in the MythWeb directory).
>
> <link rel="icon" href="http://example.com/favicon.ico"
> type="image/x-icon" />
> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://example.com/favicon.ico"
> type="image/x-icon" />
>
> IE requires the icon to be in Microsoft's icon format (GIMP can save as
> an ICO).  Firefox allows any of it's known image file formats (ICO, GIF,
> PNG, JPG).  Also, the .htaccess should be updated with the appropriate
> MIME mappings in case the user's server configuration does not include
> ICO (or in case the user's server configuration uses the IANA-registered
> MIME type of "image/vnd.microsoft.icon"--which some browsers don't
> recognize).
>
> ICO can be 16x16, 32x32, 64x64, 128x128 and either 4, 8, or 24bpp.
> GIF should be 16x16 in 8bpp
> PNG should be 16x16 in 8 or 24bpp.
>
> Mike
> ||

Sounds good, but how about someone makes a more professional looking
graphic for the favicon.  It doesn't have to be elaborate, but that
icon posted to this email thread earlier reminds me of the quality of
the Windows 3.1 icon set, if not worse.


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