What is the difference between favicon and image? - html

I want to put a icon on title bar in the browser, but what i should use in below options both are working fine but i want know the difference between these types and is it nessesary to mention icon in both rel ( shortcut icon & icon ) .
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
and
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="img/micrologo.png">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="img/micrologo.png">

Quoted from the mozilla developer pages you should only use the rel="icon".
The shortcut link type is often seen before icon, but this link type is non-conforming, ignored and web authors must not use it anymore.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Link_types
As for the ico vs png, if you want to support older browsers like Internet Explorer 10 and lower, you will need to define the .ico favicon as these browsers do not support png, gif, jpeg, or svg favicons.
The best way to have a nice favicon optimised for most browsers is to have something like this:
// Target ios browsers.
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" href="/apple-touch-icon.png">
// Target safari on MacOS.
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="32x32" href="/favicon-32x32.png">
// The classic favicon displayed in tabs.
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="16x16" href="/favicon-16x16.png">
// Used by Android Chrome for the "Add to home screen" icon and settings.
<link rel="manifest" href="/site.webmanifest">
// Used for Safari pinned tabs.
<link rel="mask-icon" href="/safari-pinned-tab.svg" color="#193860">
// Target older browsers like IE 10 and lower.
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico">
// Used by Chrome, Firefox OS, and opera to change the browser address bar.
<meta name="theme-color" content="#ccccc7">
// Used by windows 8, 8.1, and 10 for the start menu tiles.
<meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="#00aba9">
To generate all these different files, and meta tags is best to use https://realfavicongenerator.net/ (I am not affiliated with this site in any way, I simply use it very often)

Related

How do browsers select a favicon for a website?

When a website provides more than one favicon link tag, what kind of rules does a browser take to determine which icon to be actually used?
For example, the html src of IMDB includes following snippet:
<link href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/imdb/images/safari-favicon-517611381._CB483525257_.svg" mask="" rel="icon" sizes="any">
<link rel="icon" type="image/ico" href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/imdb/images/favicon-2165806970._CB470047330_.ico">
<meta name="theme-color" content="#000000">
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/imdb/images/desktop-favicon-2165806970._CB484110913_.ico">
<link href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/imdb/images/mobile/apple-touch-icon-web-4151659188._CB483525313_.png" rel="apple-touch-icon">
<link href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/imdb/images/mobile/apple-touch-icon-web-76x76-53536248._CB484146059_.png" rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="76x76">
<link href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/imdb/images/mobile/apple-touch-icon-web-120x120-2442878471._CB483525250_.png" rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="120x120">
<link href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/imdb/images/mobile/apple-touch-icon-web-152x152-1475823641._CB470042035_.png" rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="152x152">
Which icon is selected and what does other ones used for?
I noticed that the one with rel="shortcut icon" is always set as highest priority. If so, what will a browser do with a webpage with multiple shortcut icon tag?
What will a browser do with a webpage with multiple shortcut icon tag?
I've experimentally tested that when multiple shortcut icon links are provided, as long as each link has some different attribute such as the type or size, the browser will pick the best icon depending on factors such as the screen DPI or the accepted MIME types.
As a matter of fact, I have the following snippet in the header tag of a website I made:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon" sizes="16x16">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/assets/16x16.png" type="image/png" sizes="16x16">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/assets/32x32.png" type="image/png" sizes="32x32">
I've noticed that every modern browser will pick the PNG version of the icon. In fact, I haven't seen any usages of the MS-ICO version of the icon, although I haven't tested if older browsers (such as older versions of IE) will pick the ICO version over the PNG version.
When a HiDPI screen is used, I've noticed the 32x32 version will be picked in order to be presented as a 16x16#2x favicon in the tab. Otherwise, the 16x16 version will be picked. Moving the browser window from a HDPI to a non-HDPI browser window will make the browser re-evaluate the current favicon and if needed, it will change it.
The proper link relation (link rel="") for creating a bookmark icon doesn't include the word "shortcut" .
According to this page: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Link_types
The shortcut link type is often seen before icon, but this link type is non-conforming, ignored and web authors must not use it anymore.
There are some sites which don’t even declare an icon. All browsers will simply check for a (favicon.ico) file at the root level of your website.
Shortcut is simply a workaround to designate an icon that is not named favicon.ico.
i.e You will have to use “shortcut” if you need multiple icons for various pages or subdomains. (also you need to specify a path to a specific ICO file.)
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="path/to/icon.ico" />

Favicon in EDGE

I don't think this should be treated as a duplicate since the first question didn't get a proper answer
I have a WP page running and for some reason I can't get Edge to display the favicon. It works everywhere, even in IE11. The first two lines are mine, the others are generated by WP. I doesn't work on deployed server either.
<link rel="icon" sizes="16x16" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="icon" href="http://192.168.1.59/wp-content/uploads/logo.jpg" sizes="32x32" />
Please try
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
Note : MS Edge won't display favicon for locally hosted sites.

Which favicon does Chrome use on iOS?

I have used the online tool RealFaviconGenerator to generate the favicons for my website, to support a variety of devices and browsers.
Most of my favicons have a transparent background, except for the apple-touch-icons as iOS adds a black background, which I do not want. So, I have manually added a white background and used that image instead for iOS.
The favicons work well with all the devices I have tested so far, except for Google Chrome on iOS (specifically, an iPad mini 1). What I want is the browser to use one of the icons with a transparent background, like it does on a computer (probably either favicon.ico or favicon.png). However, Chrome is instead using one of the apple-touch-icons, which has a white background.
My question is: Is this behaviour normal for Chrome on all iOS devices, or am I doing something wrong?
Additional Information:
I am not sure if this is relevant, but I am adding it anyway.
In order to make it easier to organise the favicon images, I put them all in a separate folder (instead of the root directory). However, I left the favicon.ico and browserconfig.xml files in the root folder, and removed the explicit links as the FAQ of the generator recommends so:
When your favicon is in the root directory, RealFaviconGenerator does
not generate this code. This is because it somehow confuses some other
browsers like Chrome. And since IE looks for a file named favicon.ico
anyway, the best solution is to not even talk about it.
By default, Internet Explorer 11 looks for browserconfig.xml at the
root of the web site.
Any help will be gladly accepted!
UPDATE:
This is what I have in my <head> now. Notice that I have also added the favicon.ico as a <link>. When I tried using this, it seemed to work fine at first, with iOS Chrome displaying the correct favicon. However, when I refreshed the page once, the favicon went back to the earlier white background one and remained the same.
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="57x57" href="/pics/icons/apple-touch-icon-57x57.png?v=2">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="60x60" href="/pics/icons/apple-touch-icon-60x60.png?v=2">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="72x72" href="/pics/icons/apple-touch-icon-72x72.png?v=2">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="76x76" href="/pics/icons/apple-touch-icon-76x76.png?v=2">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="114x114" href="/pics/icons/apple-touch-icon-114x114.png?v=2">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="120x120" href="/pics/icons/apple-touch-icon-120x120.png?v=2">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="144x144" href="/pics/icons/apple-touch-icon-144x144.png?v=2">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="152x152" href="/pics/icons/apple-touch-icon-152x152.png?v=2">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" href="/pics/icons/apple-touch-icon-180x180.png?v=2">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/pics/icons/favicon-32x32.png?v=2" sizes="32x32">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/pics/icons/android-chrome-192x192.png?v=2" sizes="192x192">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/pics/icons/favicon-96x96.png?v=2" sizes="96x96">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/pics/icons/favicon-16x16.png?v=2" sizes="16x16">
<link rel="manifest" href="/pics/icons/manifest.json?v=2">
<link rel="mask-icon" href="/pics/icons/safari-pinned-tab.svg?v=2" color="#5bbad5">
<meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="#2d89ef">
<meta name="msapplication-TileImage" content="/pics/icons/mstile-144x144.png?v=2">
<meta name="theme-color" content="#ffffff">
What you observe is normal, even if that's not what you want: iOS Chrome takes the Apple Touch icon for bookmark and favicon.ico for the regular tab icon. On an iPad Mini, it takes the 57x57 Touch icon and the embedded 16x16 pic of favicon.ico.
Android Chrome is not that different:
Add to home screen icon (no equivalent with iOS Chrome), tab icon and task switcher icon: icons declared in manifest.json.
Bookmark icon: the Apple Touch icon. Yep.
Long story short: there is no workaround. It would worth trying to remove all touch icons to see how iOS Chrome behaves, but this is not something you will do in production.
Oh, and as the author of RealFaviconGenerator, I congratulate you for this excellent choice :)
<link href='/favicon.ico' rel='icon' type='image/x-icon'/>
or
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
Have you tried this inside of your <head>? It works fine on my website. I have just tested it on Google Chrome for IOS.

Opera default page - website links with logo

The default page on Opera Blink contains links to user-favourited webpages. Some of these webpages, like facebook, twitter, etc., have a logo.
When I add my website there, it doesn't show any logo; it shows only my-site.com text.
I see there are some websites which, when I add them here, display their logo.
What should I do with my website to make the logo retrievable by Opera?
List of Favicon Sizes - Please see the update below...
Perhaps the correctly sized Favicon is missing? The size can vary by device.
Here is a great Favicon generator that will help you create the images and code. http://realfavicongenerator.net/ Its created by philippe_b, a contributor on Stack Overflow.
You'll need several sizes for the different devices and platforms. Here's a great article explaining the details: http://www.jonathantneal.com/blog/understand-the-favicon/
Once you create the Favicon images, the links will go in the head of your html page.
Here's a good list to get you started...
<!--_________Start Favicons____________-->
<!-- favicon for non-IE browsers -->
<link rel="icon" href="media/img-icon/favicon.png">
<!-- favicon ico for IE only, IE doesn't recognize .png. E10+ won't see conditional comments, so favicon.ico was added to the root folder. Safari and Chrome will choose ico over png, so the conditional comment will hide the ico code from Safari and Chrome. -->
<!--[if IE]><link rel="shortcut icon" href="media/img-icon/favicon.ico"><![endif]-->
<!-- favicon Windows 8 Pinned Tiles. Application name = Tile text. Otherwise, it pulls from the title tag. TileColor = bg color -->
<meta name="msapplication-TileImage" content="media/img-icon/windows-tile-144.png">
<meta name="application-name" content=“Name of Your Site”>
<!-- favicon Web Clips for Apple -->
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="72x72" href="media/img-icon/touch-icon-ipad.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="76x76" href="media/img-icon/apple-touch-icon-76x76.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="114x114" href="media/img-icon/touch-icon-iphone-retina.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="120x120" href="media/img-icon/apple-touch-icon-120x120.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="144x144" href="media/img-icon/touch-icon-ipad-retina.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="152x152" href="media/img-icon/apple-touch-icon-152x152.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="57x57" href="media/img-icon/apple-touch-icon-57x57.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="media/img-icon/touch-icon-iphone.png"> <!-- 57x57, smallest size listed last for older browsers -->
<!-- size and order are important for diffrent browser/browser functions-->
<link rel="icon" href="media/img-icon/favicon-16.png" sizes="16x16">
<link rel="icon" href="media/img-icon/favicon-48.png" sizes="48x48">
<link rel="icon" href="media/img-icon/favicon-64.png" sizes="64x64">
<link rel="icon" href="media/img-icon/favicon-128.png" sizes="128x128">
<link rel="icon" href="media/img-icon/favicon-32.png" sizes="32x32">
Update
Opera uses the larger icons. For the old Speed Dial, the Favicon had to be at least 114px x 114px, and anything smaller would not show. If you have a properly linked large Favicon, then it may be Opera's cache. Sometimes its difficult to see an updated Favicon because of the browsers cache. Once you add the Favicon, you may need to delete the bookmark, close the browser and re-bookmark your site to see the icon.
Using the Favicon set above:
Opera 12 displays the Favicon on the Speed Dial page. If only a small, or standard Favicon .ico is used, it displays a screenshot of the page instead.
Opera 25 also displays the correct Favicon, and it looks great. On the sites that have only the .ico file or a small icon, it will display the website text link as you pictured in your example.
So it looks like both versions use the larger Favicons.

Favicon not working in Chrome

The favicon that I am trying to use for a site is showing up on the Firefox tabs, but not on the Chrome tabs.
Yes, there are some problem with the chrome while you work on a local machine.
Try uploading your webpages to any web hosting site and there with http:// this will work fine with every browser.
IE may also not work for this on local machine. Try it in Firefox of safari
Copy the code, this will surely work:
<head> <link rel = "shortcut icon" href=".\favicon.ico"> </head>
Have a look at: https://stackoverflow.com/a/16375622/1581725
Here again if someone first see this question:
1) Clear your chache. http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95582 And test another browser, lets say safari. How did you import the favicon?
2) How you should add it:
Normal favicon:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
PNG/GIF favicon:
<link rel="icon" type="image/gif" href="favicon.gif" />
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="favicon.png" />
3) Another thing could be the problem that chrome can't display favicons, if it's local (not uploaded to a webserver).
4) Try to rename it from favicon.{whatever} to {yourfaviconname}.{whatever} but I would suggest you to still have the normal favicon. This has solved my issue on IE.
5) Found another solution for this which works great! I simply added my favicon as Base64 Encoded Image directly inside the tag like this:
<link 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Used this page here for this: http://www.motobit.com/util/base64-decoder-encoder.asp
On Local Host I was having this problem
So I changed the url
from
<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/static/images/system/favicon.ico">
to
<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="../static/images/system/favicon.ico">
Notice the double fullstops before the href