[ILUG] fun with galeon...

Ronan Waide waider at waider.ie
Sun Dec 30 16:39:05 GMT 2001


On December 30, kevin at suberic.net said:
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 03:45:20PM +0000, Niall O Broin wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 03:12:38PM +0000, kevin lyda wrote:
> > > lastly, is it just me or does linux.ie's bookmark icon seem like an
> > > italian flag?
> > There's a subtle difference between the Irish and Italian flags - not
> > unusual to see them mixed up. Where does Galeon get the bookmark icon ?
> 
> i think it snarfs a png or or something from the root dir of the web
> server.  which is probably why it's a good thing that galeon doesn't
> grab the file automatically (you have to click a load icon button in
> the edit bookmark window).
> 
> kevin

Perhaps it uses the Microsoft-established 'standard' of fishing a
Windows icon resource out of the directory under the name
favicon.ico. This was added to the 0.9.7 release of Mozilla.

Cheers,
Waider.
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