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Best Practice N°29- Level2- Section favorites icon
Description
The source code of the page contains a valid link to a page icon (favicon).
Objectives
Allows the display, download and possible saving of a favorites icon by all navigators.
Possible technical solutions:
Depending on the format that has been chosen for the icon and whee it is stored, use one of the two following link models :
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/img/favicon.png"/>(for png, and alsojpg, gif, etc. formats)<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/img/favicon.ico"/>(The ico Microsoft format which is only recognised by Internet Explorer)
Note : These examples are in XHTML.
Control methods:
Check that the icon is displayed in the address bar and/or in the tab header of a graphical web browser.
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Opquast is a service provided by Temesis. The Opquast Best Practices are elaborated in the Opquast Workshop(FR).