Comments on: Why can’t IE use PNG favicons?

By: Jawahar

Jawahar — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:35:51 +0000

Good work.. thanks for http://www.favicon.cc site..

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:54:15 +0000

Has anyone else tried this?

I wasn’t able to display the PNG favicon in FF until I changed the type to “images/x-icon” or removed the type value. I ended up removing it because the conditional statement wasn’t working in IE with the value in place for the PNG file. The version I finally got working cross browser looked like this:

and I only got it working after I deleted everything in IE–not just the temporary internet files–and refreshed the page.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:26:22 +0000

@ Rowan, good thinking

By: Rowan

Rowan — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:00:35 +0000

Yegags: The point of the conditional is to stop non-IE browsers using the ICO

By: Yegags

Yegags — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:57:41 +0000

96 bytes of wasted space really.
IE blindly asks for favicon.ico so leave out the conditional statement and either have an actual .ico in the root, or a zero size file called favicon.ico to save the log filling up with crud.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:45:59 +0000

“If only we lived in a world where everybody used non-IE browsers.”

Exactly how I feel. The best we can hope for is a less arrogant disregard for standards in IE8.