Does anyone know how to include a favicon for a web help site in the browser address bar and/or tab? My help files are hosted on a NAS server UNC path, not on a web site.
I've tried using the tag below in the webframe.html header to link to a favicon.ico file but the browser address bar and tab continue to display the default IE icon. I am using IE8.
<head>
<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="file:///emfile0022c01/ndcdes$\DES41/DesHelp/favicon.ico"/>
</head>
It seems that using a favicon in a local html file is not well supported by modern browsers, one possible workaround would be to upload your favicon image to a web sever then link to that e.g. <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.mydomain.com/favicon.ico"/>
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Thanks Matt for your suggestion, unfortunately that doesn't work for me either. The problem seems to be limited to IE as I have discovered my original link tag works with the favicon displaying from a local file as expected when using Firefox 6.
