From: judi chen judi_chen@yahoo.com
I want have an icon in the browser's address-line when my wiki site being accessed. Just as the W icon when www. wikipedia.com being accessed.
I did the following but won't work.
Be aware that favicons are very tightly clenched to many browsers' chests!
I think they may be stored in a separate cache or something. Whenever I do a favicon for a client whose website I've already viewed without the favicon, I have to go to another machine that had never viewed that site in order to see it. This is with MacOS X and Safari -- there seems to be little you can do in Safari to make a favicon change -- even quitting Safari won't do it.
So my guess is that you successfully made your favicon, but you just couldn't see it.
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On 14/11/05, Jan Steinman Jan@bytesmiths.com wrote:
Be aware that favicons are very tightly clenched to many browsers' chests!
I think they may be stored in a separate cache or something. Whenever I do a favicon for a client whose website I've already viewed without the favicon, I have to go to another machine that had never viewed that site in order to see it. This is with MacOS X and Safari -- there seems to be little you can do in Safari to make a favicon change -- even quitting Safari won't do it.
I've no idea if this would work, but have you tried navigating to the URL of the Favicon itself, doing a "hard refresh" (i.e. hold down Ctrl or Shift while refreshing) until the correct version appears, and then navigating back to the page? Seems to me this would force it out the cache even if hard-refreshing an ordinary page didn't.
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