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    1. Re: [FreeHelp] favicons (again)
    2. Charles Dobie
    3. At 10:29 PM 7/22/2011, Charles Dobie wrote: >At 09:33 AM 7/22/2011, J.A. Florian wrote: > >To answer your question about the difference between a favicon (.ICO) and a > >QR tag.... > >1. A favicon is a 16px by 16 px that is loaded into your page with a code > >line. > >-- It then appears in your browser at the beginning of the URL when on that > >website. > >-- It provides a way to visually ID that "yep, this is the website I want". > >-- It is a visual "branding" Internet tool. For examples: Google Mail uses > >a red envelope; my GenWeb site uses a tiny old bell. The idea is people > >begin associating the icon with "this website". > >-- Favicons contain no information in the icon, except by its association > >with xyz website. >--snip-- > I was wrong -- Chrome places the favicon in the window tab, not in the address line like Firefox and Safari. Charles Dobie, cdobie@superaje.com

    07/22/2011 05:25:31