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Targhan, please fix your favicon!!!

hiTCH-HiKER

# 1
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 169 from 2003/12/31

Look how Opera handles the favicon on Morphzone.org:
UGLY

Pretty sucks :)
How about a butterfly icon with the standard favicon size?
»16.05.04 - 19:12

Targhan

# 2
Posts: 2833 from 2003/2/8

From: USA

I've been wanting to replace that standard xoops favicon for some time now. If you have a replacement I can upload, feel free to email it to me
Targhan

MorphOS portal? www.MorphZone.org
»16.05.04 - 19:13

hiTCH-HiKER

# 3
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 169 from 2003/12/31

I think that one would do the trick:
http://www.morphos.net/favicon.ico

Well but Opera has some other problem with that one, may also be a webserver related issue. Anyways if it doesn't work with this one, I will forward the issue to Opera Software :)
»16.05.04 - 19:24

Targhan

# 4
Posts: 2833 from 2003/2/8

From: USA

Try it now
Targhan

MorphOS portal? www.MorphZone.org
»16.05.04 - 19:37

hiTCH-HiKER

# 5
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 169 from 2003/12/31

Much better!
Seems to be a webserver related issue, because on Morphos.net I don't see the icon when dragged to the toolbar.
But it's still a little too big, all other favicons are smaller... but I don't know which tool can resize .ico-files :(
»16.05.04 - 19:42

Targhan

# 6
Posts: 2833 from 2003/2/8

From: USA

Well the favicon.ico thing is windows related, and so it's a combination of an icon created in windows and how Opera interprets that icon. While it's supported by linux browsers, I'm unsure of just how they are handling it. Anyway, at least it isn't the Xoops 'X' anymore
Targhan

MorphOS portal? www.MorphZone.org
»16.05.04 - 19:48

hiTCH-HiKER

# 7
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 169 from 2003/12/31

Yeahh that X was really crap :)
When I find a way to resize the favicon, I will update this thread.
»16.05.04 - 19:51

Targhan

# 8
Posts: 2833 from 2003/2/8

From: USA

Sure. I don't mind. I'de try to figure it out myself, but without favicon support in Voyager or Ibrowse--I don't think it is worth too much effort
Targhan

MorphOS portal? www.MorphZone.org
»16.05.04 - 19:55

gary_c

# 9
Butterfly

Posts: 67 from 2003/2/20

From: Chiba, Japan

I think .ico files are supposed to be 16 x 16px, so I scaled the butterfly to that size. You can get it here if you like: http://www.phinixi.com/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=62

-- gary_c
zukakakina.com - pegasosppc.jp - themes.tikiwiki.org
»17.05.04 - 03:06

cecilia

# 10
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 459 from 2003/8/30

From: universe, milk...

i went to download.com and looked at the various programs there that are supposed to make .ico files.

is there one that is better to use? just curious. (naturally, i need it to be free)
"if you ever slam anyone, for anything, somehow you always end up eating shoe" Targhan
»17.05.04 - 17:12

minator

# 11
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 365 from 2003/3/28

They are just 16x16 GIFs so anything that can produce them should do.
»17.05.04 - 17:51

cecilia

# 12
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 459 from 2003/8/30

From: universe, milk...

if I save a gif and rename it "x.ico", it isn't seen as an ico file by windows. I just tried it. and what i've read so far indicates there's addtional info in there. so it can't JUST be a "simple" gif file.
"if you ever slam anyone, for anything, somehow you always end up eating shoe" Targhan
»18.05.04 - 00:33

minator

# 13
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 365 from 2003/3/28

Forgot...
You need to add a link to the icon in the "head" section, name of format dosen't seem to matter,
this worked for me:

<link rel="icon" href="favicon.gif" />
»18.05.04 - 03:28

cecilia

# 14
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 459 from 2003/8/30

From: universe, milk...

this is what I read:

<HEAD>
<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.mydomain.com/myicon.ico">
<TITLE>My Title</TITLE>
</HEAD>
"if you ever slam anyone, for anything, somehow you always end up eating shoe" Targhan
»18.05.04 - 13:14

minator

# 15
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 365 from 2003/3/28

Yes.

Most of my web pages are XHTML so there's a difference.
All tags have to be in a pair or closed in a single tag.
So I have to add a slash at the end of the Link tag, you don't need this in standard HTML.

Hmm, wonder what MorphOS browsers make of XHTML?
»18.05.04 - 15:01

gary_c

# 16
Butterfly

Posts: 67 from 2003/2/20

From: Chiba, Japan

The Phoenix Developer Consortium site uses XHTML tags. The stylefree theme replaces CSS descriptions with hardcoded tags, but these are XHTML format. (To check, use this URL: http://phinixi.com/tiki-switch_theme.php?theme=stylefree.css . This is a work in progress.) MorphOS browsers seem to handle the tags OK. (Even after Tokai's info I haven't gotten around to getting my own Pegasos on line yet to test directly -- soon, I hope. )

-- gary_c
zukakakina.com - pegasosppc.jp - themes.tikiwiki.org
»19.05.04 - 02:47

cecilia

# 17
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 459 from 2003/8/30

From: universe, milk...

hey, for the heck of it, I tried this for some of the web sites I write for and, guess what? it works!!

http://www.scotia-news.com/

http://www.sawneybean.com/

I used the code I have listed here in my previous post, and I just made a gif file instead of those ico files.

I made one for my site:

http://www.geocities.com/ceciliafx/

but because geocities doesn't let you access images unless they are on html pages, it doesn't show up (unless it's already in your cashe).

just one of the many annoting things about yahoo.
"if you ever slam anyone, for anything, somehow you always end up eating shoe" Targhan
»27.05.04 - 14:07