Erik Tews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> explained to me what favicon.ico is and where it is used. Debian has none but it's requested quite often:
grep favicon /var/log/apache/access.log|wc -l 4542 In short, Erik also provided the swirl as favicon.ico. I wonder if and how we (I?) should add it to the website? Add it to the english directory with -kb and add a special rule to the makefile so it gets copied with the install target? Find the swirl at http://people.debian.org/~joey/stuff/favicon.ico And an example at http://www.linuxtag.org/favicon.ico eeyes can display them. Regards, Joey -------------------------------------------------- What is favicon? Favicon was invented by Microsoft in 1999. Favicon is an abbreviation of Favorite Icon (Bookmarks are called favorites apparently). Primary they should make your bookmark-collection look nicer. The favicon will apear next to the bookmark-name so that you can find a site by looking at the images. Favicon is supported by konquerer, too. How does one create a favicon? I suggest using kiconedit. Just paint your icon there and save it. Perhaps you can use GIMP first and then export the result into kiconedit. Where should the favicon.ico file be placed? The file should be reachable as <http://www.sld.tld/favicon.ico>. Setting up specific icons for html documents You can use favicons on a per-document basis. In that case, the header of your html-document should look like this: <html> <head> <title>Page with Favicon</title> <LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="/dir/meinicon.ico"> </head> <body> page body </body> </html> The Browser will then look for the icon at <http://www.sld.tld/dir/meinicon.ico>. More information Check out <http://www.favicon.de/> for more information. German-only, sorry. -- All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory... -- Larry Wall Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.
