[PLUG] Web Site Browser Icon

chris (fool) mccraw gently at gmail.com
Wed Dec 17 19:16:30 UTC 2008


On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:14, Richard C. Steffens <rsteff at comcast.net> wrote:
> Many web sites I visit have little icons that show up in the browser.
> For example, there's an icon composed of concentric c's next to the
> address bar when I'm connected to Comcast's e-mail reader, and a "g"
> (but in a different font) when I'm connected to Google.
>
> What do you call that icon, and where to I go to look for specs, such as
> height and width, and what format it needs to be?

it's a file called favicon.ico (typically, apparently not required,
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon).



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