[elf0024]

Hi everyone!
Hope all having a great day.

I have a problem displaying a favicon on IE7. Well I have searched a lot, but couldn't find right solutions for me.
One of my clients is using Membergate and asks me to change the favicon.
After I change (actually overwrote the ico file as I cannot ftp) the favicon, I can see the new favicon on Firefox, Opera, Safari on Windows and Mac, however IE7 still displays old favicon.
I have deleted all browser histories, cache and temp files, but it doesn't work.
More strangely, I have tested it on another computer which has never been the website, but it still displays the old favicon on IE7.

I have opened the source file and checked, it has same path of "<LINK REL="icon" HREF="http://74.200.215.78/public/favicon.ico" TYPE="image/x-icon"> " on every browsers.
I guess it's not because of client side's browser problem as other computers still display the old one.

What do you guys think about this? What could cause this problem?

Thanks a lot!!

[Fyzbo]

IE is taking the image at http://74.200.215.78/favicon.ico It looks at the root of the website for a file called favicon.ico. In this case http://74.200.215.78/ is the root.

[tomdkat]

So either IE7 is ignoring:

<LINK REL="icon" HREF="http://74.200.215.78/public/favicon.ico" TYPE="image/x-icon">

or the other browsers are ignoring that?

EDIT: Based on this, it looks like a different link tag needs to be used:

<LINK REL="shortcut icon" HREF="http://74.200.215.78/public/favicon.ico" TYPE="image/x-icon">

So what that link tag does for you.

Peace...

[Fyzbo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon

* It had been suggested that both of the following HTML lines should be included:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://example.com/favicon.ico" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon">
<link rel="icon" href="http://example.com/favicon.ico" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon">

However, only the former is necessary, as 'shortcut icon' will be treated as a list of possibilities by standards-compliant browsers (with "shortcut" being ignored, and "icon" used); while Internet Explorer will treat it as a single name ("shortcut icon"). The result is that all browsers understand the code. It is only necessary to include a second piece of code if one desires to offer an alternative image to modern browsers (e.g. an animated GIF).

[tomdkat]

Great minds think alike.

Peace...

[elf0024]

Thanks guys!

As it seems I cannot access the file to change the code (kidda annoying), I might have to contact to Membergate :-(
It was a nice article though Fyzbo. Thanks a lot!

I will be back if I got some news.

Cheers!