Favicon and html extensions

[Andre K]

Hi all!

I´m not sure what forum to put these questions it, so I figured I´ll just go ahead and post it in this one. Please move it to the apropriate forum if this one is completely wrong.

There are two questions I would like to ask:

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I went to favicon.com to create an icon for my website that appears as soon as someone bookmarks my site. Not sure how to explain it, but I guess you all know what I mean.
Everything worked just fine, and I followed their instructions to the letter. I tried bookmarking my own site, and it worked well. The icon appeared and everything. However, if anyone else tries to bookmark it, the default icon instead of mine appears. None of my friends who tested it for me had my icon appear in their favorites folder (or anywhere else for that matter...:D).
So I went back to favicon.com and vrey carefully re-read the instructions there and made sure I didn´t do anything wrong. Still the same problem... When I bookmark my own site it works as advertised, if anyone else tries it won´t. I´m really at a loss here. Does my server have to support anything I´m not aware of in order to make this work?

What is the difference between the extensions *.htm and *.html? I learned HTML through John´s excellent tutorials, and therefore I´m using the *.htm extension now (since that´s what John used in his tutorials as well). However, most sites on the web use *.html.
Is there any difference? Does either extension have certain advantages or disadvantages? If both are the same, then how come most people use *.html?
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Well, I hope someone can shed some light on these issues. I´ve been surfing the web to get answers already, but so far I didn´t really find any useful answers.
Thanks a lot in advance! :)

[caislander]

Hi,

Can't answer the first part of your question as that is one of those thing I have just never tried to do don't see much of a need, but I would encourage you to make sure your friends are using IE 5.0 or above as I don't think it works in IE below that or NN for that matter…
On the .htm vs .html question They are pretty much the same (news Flash there UH?) most servers at this time are capable of using either. *.htm is a holdover from an earlier time as dos only allowed 3 letter extensions, this affected Windows NT user. I believe all unix servers were always able to except *.html. So use which ever one you are comfortable with UNLESS your ISP requires one over the other.

Hope This Was Useful :)

[Andre K]

...I´ll just use ".htm" and save myself some typing time by skipping a letter. :D

Thanks for the reply Caislander. Actually I believe you solved the favicon problem for me as well. One of my friends was using IE 4.0, two were using Netscape browsers. That´s probably why I didn´t work. Well, I´m gonna tell them them to upgrade (at least the one with IE 4.0) and continue testing on this issue. :)

Andre

[Vincent Puglia]

Hi Andre,

Save yourself some hunting time. Cais has it on the money in both cases.

Vinny

[able]

Hi Andre,
As for the first one, Don't know ask the people that sold it to you..
As for the second:
What is the difference between the extensions *.htm and *.html? I learned HTML through John´s excellent tutorials, and therefore I´m using the *.htm extension now (since that´s what John used in his tutorials as well). However, most sites on the web use *.html.
Is there any difference? Does either extension have certain advantages or disadvantages? If both

IT'S THE "L" ON THE END OF ONE AND NOT THE OTHER... :-)

James