Ralph Shnelvar
2010-Dec-19 22:33 UTC
favicon.ico (shortcut icon) & Internet Explorer 8 & rails
For all the poor programmers out there who have been scratching their heads ... If you do something like <link href=''/images/UltraDedup-icon-003---16x16.ico'' rel=''shortcut icon'' type=''image/x-icon'' /> and place it immediately after the in the <head> section of a webpage then you may experience the following bizarre behavior: Firefox, Safari, Chrome will all display the webpage correctly. Internet Explorer 8 will almost get the page right but certain elements will stretch and other elements will not center. It just looks weird. The workaround that works for me is to place the link at the end of the <head>. It all works in all browsers then. Ugh. - - - Ok, that''s the workaround. But I have read that FF and IE are supposed to be able to display the shortcut icon (the icon that appears in a browser''s various tabs) if the icon is named favicon.ico and is in the website''s root. Well, I placed this file in my website''s root, in public, in public/images ... all to no avail. Where should I put favicon.ico and what, if anything, should I tell rails about it? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
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