[WEB4LIB] icons for web page in location bar of browser-technique?

[Mary Kindred]

It's called a Favicon and I believe it only works in Internet Explorer.
http://www.favicon.com/

M a r y  K i n d r e d
T h e  L i b r a r y  P r o j e c t
mary.kindred at maine.edu
http://www.geocities.com/thelibraryproject/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joan K. Graham" <grahamjo at oplin.lib.oh.us>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 8:28 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] icons for web page in location bar of browser-technique?


> I believe that some time ago there was a discussion on this list
> concerning why an icon appeared before the URL in the location bar,
> after you accessed certain web sites, while only a browser icon would
> appear for other sites.
>
> A colleague asked me yesterday why our site's URL didn't produce this. I
> told him I thought it was probably code written into the page, and I
> wished I had paid attention, if I did see postings on this topic. Does
> anyone know how it's done?
> TIA.
> Joan Graham
> Stark County District Library
>