[Zope-dev] Re: favicon.ico for 2.10?

[Duncan Booth]

Florent Guillaume wrote:

> kit BLAKE wrote:
>> 2006/4/24, Jens Vagelpohl <jens at dataflake.org>:
>>> Yeah, that's nice. Does it work as a PNG, though? I was under the
>>> impression (and thought  the spec requires) that favicons must be
>>> *.ico files.
>> 
>> A PNG favicon will work in the Mozilla family, but not in IE.
>> kit
> 
> However I'd be surprised if a .gif didn't work.
> 
So far as I can tell, neither .png nor .gif work for favicon.ico in IE. It 
will display a gif/png named favicon.ico in the browser, but it won't use 
it as an icon on the address bar/favourites.