[HELP] Favicon loads on firefox but won't for IE 7

i need help please www.onlinebingowebsites.com the favicon shows on firefox but not Internet explorer version 7?? please help driving me crazy!

 

Well, I do know that animated favicons do not work with IE, but it doesn't look animated to me.

Try taking out the type="image/x-icon" tag. I don't know if that's the problem, but it might work. Lol.

 

nope that did not work either! :-(

 

After taking a deeper look at the site, I noticed this:

 <link rel="icon" href="http://www.onlinebingowebsites.com/images/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.onlinebingowebsites.com/images/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">

Code (markup):

It has the favicon code twice, except the first one only says 'icon', while the second one says 'shortcut icon'. Maybe two of them could cause a problem? I dunno.

 

nope not that either :-(

 

Okay, we both may be dumb (no offense, haha) but I don't think favicons work with IE at all.. It's the same with any site I've visited, none of the sites have a favicon on IE, but do in FF. Sorry!

 

anybody know why???

 

I second that, I think favicons don't appear in IE, they just appear in FF.

 

Favicons work just fine (if non-standards compliant) in IE6&7. IE6 shows the favicon only in the bookmarks. IE also expects the rel="shortcut icon" version, which is not the allowed format. Modern browsers ignore the shortcut and apply icon as the rel value. If you use both versions of the link, put the "shortcut icon" version first.

cheers,

gary

 

Yes, favicons do work on IE since version 5.5 which is older than FF and they are shown in both the address bar and your desktop as a shortcut if you make one.

I believe is all about icon format which, by the way, I use Windows ICO format 32x32 instead of the recommended 16x16