What is a favicon?
A favicon is a custom icon associated with a webpage or website that appears next to the http address in the URL window of a browser. The favicon will also occupy open tabs in tab-enabled browsers, and will display next to bookmarked links. Favicon combines the words “favorites” and “icon.” Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.0 introduced the ability to display favicons, followed by other major browsers. Firefox, Netscape, Opera, Safari and Konquerer are among the many browsers that support favicons. A favicon is so small that it is measured in pixels. A pixel is the smallest unit of measurement on a computer screen. Pixels, which resemble tiny blocks, are clearly visible when viewing a display screen through a magnifying glass. A favicon is just 16×16 pixels, 32×32, or, in the case of Macintosh computers, sometimes 64×64 or larger. Designing a logo for such a tiny canvas is no easy task, so it’s easier to start with a larger canvas and then re-size the image down. Since reducing an
A favicon is a small image placed in the web site root directory. It is 16×16 pixels in dimensions (a very small image) and usually acts as a web site identifier if it contains the logo, a part of the logo or the web site colors. It has its own extension, .ico and is named favicon.ico. The favicon image is stored along the web site URL in the Favorites or Bookmarks folder. The latest versions of Netscape (7.0) and Mozilla web browsers also display the favicon in front of the URL in the location field and on Tabs. Refer image below: If you are using the correct browser version, you would be able to see a favicon of the logo; quite like this image – . By the by, the word favicon stands for favorite icon.
A favicon, short for “favorites icon,” is a small graphic you can associate with your website for display in browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Safari, iCab, and AOL Explorer. This icon appears in several places: in the browser’s Location field, next to the site’s name in a bookmarks list, with the site’s title in a tab (if the browser uses tabs), and next to the site’s feed as shown in many feed readers.
