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silly little icons!
Readers with a pulse will have noticed by now that just about every post on the state pages comes with that blog's icon.
What icon? Your "favorite icon" of course. It's a file called favicon.ico - and it lives at the root of your blog's file structure.
For BlueOregon.com, for example, it's here and it looks like this:
To create your own icon, go here.
(Unfortunately, it doesn't appear as if Blogger lets you create your own -- so you're stuck with the Creamsicle B. All other systems seem to allow you to do your own favicons. And no, we can't help you upload it to your blog. It's your blog, not ours.)
Posted by Kari Chisholm on March 9, 2006 02:38 AM
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Kari, how is the software mining for favicons? I'm on Blogger, but I have a favicon. Technically, I have a .gif tagged in my template (as opposed to a .ico), but it shows up just fine in the address bar of browsers everywhere. Yet, as you noted, the "B" is what shows up on these pages . . .
Not complaining; just curious.
Posted by folkbum on March 9, 2006 10:20 PM
Not "mining" for favicons -- just linking to what you have at your root.
And yeah, I know that you can add it as a meta-tag in your template - but there's no consistent way to find those, without going out and reading all the templates. The server load required to do that is too massive.
Posted by Kari Chisholm on March 10, 2006 08:40 AM
Love your use of Favicons.
However, mine is pulling the favicon from feedburner instead of www.aprogressiveaction.com.
I contacted feedburner support who replied:
Looks like whatever script at leftyblogs.com is republishing the feed is pulling the favicon.ico from feedburner.com (where your feed is hosted) instead of from your domain. The proper functionality would be to pull the favicon.ico from the domain specified in the element of the feed (yours is set correctly); unfortunately, this appears to be a result of the code at leftyblogs.com ignoring the element and instead just going to the domain where the feed is hosted. Note that this isn't limited to FeedBurner - other blogs that are hosted at blogspot.com show the Blogger logo instead of a favicon.ico file of their choosing.
If you want to have them contact me, I'd be happy to chat about how this should work, and how we've seen other web-based aggregators handle favicon.ico use...
Thanks for using FeedBurner.
Regards,
Rick
Rick is available at: rick-at-rklau.com
or via phone at: 630.362.8911
Posted by Davd on March 12, 2006 02:40 PM
www.uaprogressiveaction.com sorry typed to fast above . . . posts are in Ohio
Posted by David on March 12, 2006 02:42 PM
I sure do love Rick Klau.
He's exactly right. At the moment, the logic for our little favicons goes like this - "hey! what's the domain for the rss feed? go there, and grab their favicon!"
Yes, yes, yes, we could certainly parse through the feed and get the appropriate url AND visit the blogger blogs and read the meta tag (see above), but that's not in the cards in the immediate future.
It's the difference between 5 minutes of coding and several dozen hours of coding. We'll get there, just not anytime soon.
(FWIW, the only reason we might be using a feedburner feed is if your feed doesn't work for us for some reason. We generally try to avoid them - despite the coolness of Rick Klau - to make things more straightforward.)
Posted by Kari Chisholm on March 12, 2006 06:50 PM
Thanks for your response. I host my feed at feedburner because of their many added-value features and options.
In any event, are you suggesting that I set up another feed outside of feedburner for lefty blogs so I can implement this lastest feature? I'm willing to do so. What is lefty blogs favorite flavor of feed again?
Dave
Posted by Dave on March 13, 2006 11:02 AM
We're wanting either an RSS 2.0 feed -- or an Atom feed (but only if the file is called atom.xml - don't ask.)
Go ahead and submit it where appropriate - and put "RESUBMIT" in the blog title
Posted by Kari Chisholm on March 13, 2006 08:03 PM
We finally finished with the domain mapping to our site, www.micaucus.com, and now the favicon won't appear on Leftyblogs. We like our icon and spent a lot of time on that little thing. How can we get it to display again on Lefty?
Posted by Michigan Caucus on September 2, 2006 08:13 AM
