Update the Favicon sticky !

[Raithah]

That sticky is sorely out of date : all modern browsers can support PNG and GIF favicons. The tag for entering a favicon into the Head has changed a smidgen with the XHTML standard, by no means is it required yet it should still be included for the sake of supporting the eXtesnible revolution

I think Paint now has a feature to save to .ico, so that should be included as well.

[jrgp]

Paint does not have the feature, what your suggesting is not necessary.
How it currently is works fine. Don't try to fix what isn't broke.

[Raithah]

Point one : All I'm suggesting is that you put a /> at the end of the tag, its metadata and change the file requirements. It's not huge, and it'll help prevent people jumping through hoops for nothing.

Point two : Save a file as a sixteen colour .bmp. Then convert .bmp to .ico, and guess what works

[jrgp]

The forums aren't even using a tag, the favicon.ico is just located in the root directory of the webserver, and that is where the browser always checks for the file and loads it automatically.

It works now, why change it to something more complex and not even necessary?

[Frenchie]

Umm.. You post that modern browsers support gif as favicon, but you don't provide code. So I will 

If anyone wants a moving favicon (Animated GIF)

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<link rel="icon" href="http://mysite.com/favicon.gif" type="image/gif" >

[jrgp]

don't forget the closing slash for xhtml:

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<link rel="icon" href="http://mysite.com/favicon.gif" type="image/gif" />

[Raithah]

... but you don't provide code.

Heh. Whoops.