[wwwdocs] favicon.ico for gcc.gnu.org?

Tue May 28 08:52:00 GMT 2002

On Mon, 27 May 2002, Roger Sayle wrote:
  >On Mon, 27 May 2002, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
  >> On Sat, 25 May 2002, Roger Sayle wrote:
  >>> Several WWW browsers, including KDE's Konqueror and Microsoft's
  >>> Internet Explorer support associating a icon with a WWW site or
  >>> URL.  Currently gcc.gnu.org has no icon associated with it.
  >>> This feature is enabled by placing a 16x16 icon in the toplevel
  >>> of htdocs as the filename "favicon.ico".
  >>
  >> IIRC, .ico is a simple bitmap format, so we have not patent problems
  >> as with GIF, right?
  >
  >Right.
  >
  >>> To stimulate further discussion, I've attached a suitably sized
  >>> rendering of the GCC logo (a GNU breaking out of an egg) to this
  >>> e-mail.
  >>
  >> Let's give it a try. ;-)
  >
  >Applied.
  >
  >Roger

Actually, the magic-filename of "favicon.ico" has been depreciated due to so 
many ISPs complaining about a gazillon 404s on non-existant favicons.  IE 6 no 
longer will automagically look for it nor does Mozilla (which it only worked for 
one beta version, IIRC).

On the plus side, you can leave the filename as favicon.ico, and this simple 
patch will implement it the correct way.

The only question for you to decide is if to always have it point to 
http://gcc.gnu.org or use a relative URL in which case, since I'm not exactly 
sure how the webpage mirrors operate, you may have to move favicon.ico to a 
different directory at which point you might as well also rename it to gcc.ico.

--- style.mhtml.orig	Tue May 28 10:55:11 2002
+++ style.mhtml	Tue May 28 10:57:23 2002
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
  <head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
  <link rev="made" href="mailto:gcc@gcc.gnu.org" />
+<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://gcc.gnu.org/favicon.ico" />
  </verbatim>
  %body
  <verbatim>


