Possible to provide a favicon for cpaptalk.com?

[feeling_better]

Hi Johnny,

It appears your site is not providing a favicon. Or at least I am not seeing any in my browser, and my os/browser does not allow add my own favicon to a site. It is fairly easy to add this: just have a small icon file in somewhere on the server, and your header call this out as favicon. With your php it would be trivial to implement.

[NotMuffy]

Oddly, I get a cpaptalk.ico (a blue word balloon) in Favorites, but not in Favorites Bar. There appears to be a number of different recipients of "finger pointing" as to whose fault this is.

You could just manually edit the icon (like to a [insert disgusting .jpg here]).

[feeling_better]

Yes, I have edited in my own icons perhaps starting many years ago. I have my own web sites, and I know exactly were to setup the these icons at the server too.

Unfortunately, not all browsers, (an example, the new Google Chromeos Notebook) would not allow these favicons to be edited to set, at least not yet... Thanks for responding.

[Hose_Head]

Hi Johnny,

It appears your site is not providing a favicon. Or at least I am not seeing any in my browser, and my os/browser does not allow add my own favicon to a site. It is fairly easy to add this: just have a small icon file in somewhere on the server, and your header call this out as favicon. With your php it would be trivial to implement.

I had to look it up as I had no idea what a favicon is. For those who don't know: favicon is an answer to a question that no-one asked. That's all you need to know.

[Hawthorne]

I had no idea what a favicon was either and had to look it up!

I get a blue word ballon in my Favourites list for cpaptalk.com as well. Never noticed. Doesn't seem to mean anything.

[feeling_better]

It does not have any special meaning. The only use for this is to identify the website when you have a lot of web sites open at the same time. All the websites, when displayed on a [top] tab bar become very small with no text if there are many open. The tiny icon, the favicon, identify the site. I may have as many as 20 websites open all the time, and I ususally see only of them in a full screen.

[Emilia]

Here is an example of what one might look like for this forum:



I captured the 'talk' from the logo and used a favicon generator to create it.

[NotMuffy]

If you want the "official" cpaptalk favicon:



resize to 32x32 or 16x16, Save As an *.ico file and then just change the existing favicon (Properties > Change Icon...).

Alternatively, one may use the Mufficon:

[johnnygoodman]

erm. I don't think the favicon survived the phpbb upgrade. I will ticket.

Johnny

[feeling_better]

erm. I don't think the favicon survived the phpbb upgrade. I will ticket.

Johnny

Johnny, you might already know this, from my experience: As favicon evolved, all the original specs and suggestion showed referring to the favicon.ico without any path in the header and having the icon itself at a specified place in the web server folder tree. But all modern browsers work very well with a full path specification of the favicon in the header. I have used this scheme to provide different favicons for different part of a site, such as one or the main discussion, one for cpap wiki, one for product challenge etc, [not the best usage example]. When people maintain different tabs for these, this way, they can distinguish even which section of a site they are own.