HTML5 recommendation for icons in multiple sizes Only SeaMonkey does not fetch favicon.ico files in the website's root by default. Opera will choose from any of the available icons completely at random.
Indeed, Chrome for Mac will ignore the 16×16 favicon and use the 32×32 version, only to scale it back down to 16×16 on non-retina devices. If none of the aforementioned options are available, both Chromes will use whichever favicon comes first, exactly the opposite of Firefox and Safari.
Chrome for Windows will use the favicon that comes first if it is 16×16, otherwise the ICO. Chrome for Mac will use whichever favicon is ICO formatted, otherwise the 32×32 favicon. Firefox and Safari will use the favicon that comes last. If links for both PNG and ICO favicons are present, PNG-favicon-compatible browsers select which format and size to use as follows.
RFC 5988 established an IANA link relation registry, Īnd rel="icon" was registered in 2010 based on the HTML5 specification. ico with the non-standard image/x-icon MIME type in Web servers. A workaround for Internet Explorer is to associate.
not as favicon), Internet Explorer cannot display files served with this standardized MIME type. ico format was registered by a third party with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) under the MIME type image/. Unlike in the prior scheme, the file can be in any Web site directory and have any image file format. The standard implementation uses a link element with a rel attribute in the section of the document to specify the file format and file name and location. The favicon was standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in the HTML 4.01 recommendation, released in December 1999, and later in the XHTML 1.0 recommendation, released in January 2000. This side effect no longer works, as all modern browsers load the favicon file to display in their web address bar, regardless of whether the site is bookmarked.
A side effect was that the number of visitors who had bookmarked the page could be estimated by the requests of the favicon. It was used in Internet Explorer's favorites (bookmarks) and next to the URL in the address bar if the page was bookmarked. Originally, the favicon was a file called favicon.ico placed in the root directory of a website. In March 1999, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 5, which supported favicons for the first time.