Favicons in Safari ?

MonsterZero · Aug 19, 2004

I put one on my site ( http://www.monsterislandmedia.com ) but i cant seem to get it to show up ...

though it does show on a freinds PC ( with navigator and IE ) and does show up with firefox.

Anyone seeing it ? ( its a donkey ...dont ask)

stoid · Aug 19, 2004

I see it. Safari v125.9. Mac OS 10.3.5

iLikeMyiMac · Aug 19, 2004

It works for me.
I like your site BTW. its nice and simple/black and white.

alexf · Aug 19, 2004

You'll have to purge Safari

Unfortunately Safari is remembering that there is no favicon associated with the site, even though there now is.

To see the favicon on your computer you'll have to purge Safari (more than just the cache). I don't recall how to do this at the moment, but I can guarantee you that this is the problem. In any case, rest assured that the rest of the world with a capable browser can see your favicon.

iostream.h · Aug 19, 2004

Delete the contents from:

~/Library/Safari/Icons/

homerjward · Aug 19, 2004

stoid said:
I see it. Safari v125.9. Mac OS 10.3.5

whoa! he can time travel!

stoid · Aug 19, 2004

homerjward said:
whoa! he can time travel!

I guess so.

davecuse · Aug 19, 2004

Change

<link REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.monsterislandmedia.com/favicon.ico">

to this

<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

It would also be a good idea to declare a doctype in the head, for more info check out the article below.

http://alistapart.com/articles/doctype/

giggy · Sep 1, 2004

how to empty cache

alexf said:
Unfortunately Safari is remembering that there is no favicon associated with the site, even though there now is.

To see the favicon on your computer you'll have to purge Safari (more than just the cache). I don't recall how to do this at the moment, but I can guarantee you that this is the problem. In any case, rest assured that the rest of the world with a capable browser can see your favicon.

I'm having the same problem seeing my favicon on Safari. Won't show up on IE but does show up on Netscape 7.2. I checked Safari Help to empty cache and got: Choose Empty Cache from the Safari menu, then click Empty.
I did and it didn't help. Just put up a simple ugly one for a friend at http://smetanaphotos.com as a test. Any other ideas anyone?
( Also using Safari 1.2.3 (v125.9)

davecuse · Sep 2, 2004

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Shirley Smetana Photographs</title>
<!-- <link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="favicon.ico"> -->
<!--  <link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"/>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"/> -->

You have the doctype set to html 4.01 transistional, and you are using xhtml 1.0 code to push out your favicon, you don't need the trailing slash unless you change over to xhtml. Additionally you have two of them commmented out. It did show up in Safari when I checked out the site, I believe that the 2nd one you have commented out is what tells IE what to do, I could be wrong. But I would try this

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Shirley Smetana Photographs</title>
<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">

giggy · Sep 2, 2004

thanks to davecuse

davecuse said:
Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Shirley Smetana Photographs</title>  

You have the doctype set to html 4.01 transistional, and you are using xhtml 1.0 code to push out your favicon, you don't need the trailing slash unless you change over to xhtml. Additionally you have two of them commmented out. It did show up in Safari when I checked out the site, I believe that the 2nd one you have commented out is what tells IE what to do, I could be wrong. But I would try this

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Shirley Smetana Photographs</title> <link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">

==============
I tried your example and i still don't see it except on Netscape 7.2. Tried emptying cache as above and then tried 'iostream's' suggestion to empty ~Library/Safari/Icons with no success. Glad to know that you can see it. I don't understand your comment about it being xhtml code tho. I don't use xhtml so far but don't understand what made my example non-compatable w/ html.
ANYWAY - Thanks for the effort and prompt response. It's these little things that always drive me nuts. I know it's no big deal but really am irritated that i can't get it to work. I bet you know the feeling also...

davecuse · Sep 2, 2004

xhtml specs require that you use a / in any non-closing code, for example
<img src="a.png" />
html 4.0 does not require this so the example below is fine
<img src="a.png">

giggy · Sep 2, 2004

thanks again...

davecuse said:
xhtml specs require that you use a / in any non-closing code, for example
<img src="a.png" />
html 4.0 does not require this so the example below is fine
<img src="a.png">

Once again, many thanx dave...
Dave Giggy <-- me

alexf · Sep 2, 2004

giggy said:
I'm having the same problem seeing my favicon on Safari. Won't show up on IE but does show up on Netscape 7.2. I checked Safari Help to empty cache and got: Choose Empty Cache from the Safari menu, then click Empty.
I did and it didn't help. Just put up a simple ugly one for a friend at http://smetanaphotos.com as a test. Any other ideas anyone?
( Also using Safari 1.2.3 (v125.9)

Trust us, the Favicon is there... I've run into similar problems with Safari.

Dahl · Oct 30, 2004

Can one of you please visit my site to see if my favicon is up.
http://www.andersdahl.com

I have tried everything the last couple of months, but no luck.

Veldek · Oct 30, 2004

Dahl said:
Can one of you please visit my site to see if my favicon is up.
http://www.andersdahl.com

I have tried everything the last couple of months, but no luck.

Yes, there is a star there.

mum4d · Nov 2, 2004

I set up a favicon for my company. If I view the root URL it works fine http://home.btclick.com/screenhousegroup/
But if I view the same page via our Domain name I get Nothing? http://www.screenhousegroup.com
Any ideas why??

giggy · Nov 2, 2004

I got the same result so...

I got the same result you did so i suggest the difference may be in how the page is handled by the two different servers. I assume they are different servers?
I can't think of any other reason it would show up on one and not the other. The code seems to be fine and is the same in both instances. Maybe someone more knowledgable than i knows of other reasons.

Gee · Nov 2, 2004

Dahl said:
Can one of you please visit my site to see if my favicon is up.
http://www.andersdahl.com

I have tried everything the last couple of months, but no luck.

Yep, nice green star....

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