favicon.ico is png?
Reported by Jason Brower | May 9th, 2009 @ 06:17 PM | in 0.5
At least that is what it is stating in the declaration of it in the html. Is that what it is supposed to be?
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Matias Korhonen May 9th, 2009 @ 06:44 PM
- Assigned user set to “Matias Korhonen”
- Tag set to “images”
- State changed from “new” to “invalid”
Yes. That is perfectly correct. The ico extension is there solely for the pleasure of Apache, if I remember correctly. Nonetheless the actual format of the favicon is PNG (if you open the image in GIMP and go to Image => Image Properties, you can see that), thus the mime type in the html tag.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Apache by default looks for the favicon.ico file in the VHOST root folder and logs an error if it isn't there. This results in a performance hit on Apache.
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Ruby on Rails web application for the HAAGA-HELIA Linux Club.
Jason Brower
Matias Korhonen