Well, I’ve been noticing a LOT of 404’s regarding favicon.ico in the logs … so I made up an empty bitmap, and stuck it on the server root.
That took care of the errors. Then I got curious about what favicon.ico was for … turns out it’s the little widget that’s displayed on the url bar and when you save a bookmark.
The canvas size? A whopping 16×16 pixels… I’m no artist, so I just put a red J with a drop shadow for now… I’m sure I can think up something better down the road
Enjoy!
For whatever reason, some pictures decide not to load. I see the errors in my log on the server, as HTTP Code 304. Something seems to be happening in the voodoo my shared host uses to make my domain seem to be on its own box … “virtual servers”. Because I’m lazy I’ve been using relative links to my pictures, rather than absolute links; this doesn’t seem to play well with the hosts voodoo, so, I’ll be using absolute links from now on and hope that resolves things.
If a pic isn’t loading for you, please leave a comment or shoot me an email (gordonthree at gmail dot com).
*edit* thanks to linear for pointing out that 304 isn’t an error, it just means the content hasn’t changed… so I’m not sure what the cause was for those of you who mentioned you couldn’t see a picture – hopefully whatever it was, it stays fixed!