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Daver
23-10-2005, 10:04 AM
I'm just wandering why there is a picture of Jared in my address bar (before the "http://" bit) when i'm at the forum index? Anyone?
McBain
23-10-2005, 10:19 AM
Do you mean this one? http://forums.farkin.net/favicon.ico
Daver
23-10-2005, 10:51 AM
Do you mean this one? http://forums.farkin.net/favicon.ico

Yeah, thats the one. Normally its an "E" but lately its been Jared.
McBain
23-10-2005, 11:02 AM
It is the favicon (Favourites Icon) for the site - basically a little bit of decoration. You see the same thing on lots of other sites.

There was a short thread about it a while ago: http://forums.farkin.net/showthread.php?t=39351

It originally came about for IE as a way of setting the icon for things in the user's bookmarks/favourites list, but most browsers support them these days.

I like it.