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urlkiller
#1 2009-03-11 20:35
when iam developing skins or plugins for sed i needed to change the favicon every time.
so my idea was why not sticking the favicon in the skin folder.
i think its a bit more logic to have it at the "visual-things" so you do not have to change dirs and you won't forget to change it in the process´;)
also you could change the favicon simply by changing the skin.

isnt the favicon part of the the ci/cd/skin you wish to create?
so why not putting it simply in that folder...
would put more order in the root dir too btw.

just an idea...
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Trustmaster
#2 2009-03-11 23:23
Sounds reasonable to me
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medar
#3 2009-03-12 00:48
Agree to put by default favicon.ico into skin folder
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biro
#4 2009-03-12 01:13
I thought favicon.ico is in the root?
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Sergeich
#5 2009-03-12 01:20
favicon.ico a unique identifier of the site. This is not identifier of the skin. I do not agree with this idea.

Lombi
#6 2009-03-12 01:34
-1 to this idea, you can do that by yourself, not commit to the whole CMS. A myriad of browsers automatically check for favicon.ico on the root of the domain, which would result in hundreds of 404 errors daily even on the sites that noone visits.
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Brock
#7 2009-03-12 04:51
Yeah, this isn't a good idea. As Sergeich said, it's a symbol of your site, not a skin file. A company's not going to change their logo for every skin, they're going to keep the same logo, just change the looks of the template.
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Sergey
#8 2009-03-12 05:36
NovoKain
#9 2009-03-12 06:58
Look at WordPress
FocusEnterprise
#10 2009-03-12 08:53
why not just put a tag like this

[link rel="shortcut icon" href="{HEADER_TOPLINE}" /]

Replace [] with <>

it works as i have it on my site, works better and can change it easer[/]
urlkiller
#11 2009-03-12 09:07
now that iam aware of the autocheck i pull back my idea.
seems more logic to let it in the root. otherwise i would suggest my old idea.
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Trustmaster
#12 2009-03-14 22:37
As a conclusion I would like to say:
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  • Default favicon.ico must exist in site root folder.
  • If you want different favicons for each skin, put appropriate link tags in header.tp
  • May the Source be with you!