New PGPSW Icon thingy

M8TJT · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:39 pm Post subject: New PGPSW Icon thingy

Whats going on?. The new PGPSW Icon seems to be all blurred and 'out of focus' so much so that I can't even read what it says Confused

. There seems to be a long word at the top and a short word at the bottom in yellow with a blue, yellow hubbed propeller across the middle. It's scattered itself all over my desktop shortcuts and IE tabs and address bar. (Only where it is supposed to be though Very Happy

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Am I missing out on some new revolutionary icon generator Question

or have I just been issued with a very low res version Twisted Evil

Darren · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:02 pm Post subject:

I assume you're talking about the favicon, i.e. the Icon that displays in the Address bar of your web browser?

Assuming you're not looking at a cached older version (I experimented with a few!) you should see a black square with the initials 'PGPS' in yellow above a GPS Satellite.

Obviously as the favicon is limited to 16 x 16 pixels, great works of art aren't possible but the current one (designed by forum user GerryC) is in my opinion very good.
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M8TJT · Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:03 am Post subject:

Hi Darren.
Yes, its the address bar icon that I am talking about AND the larger icon that displays against the PGPSW IE shortcuts that I have on my desktop on my XP SP2 machine.
Looking at it hard, I guess that it is similar to your Avtar with the word 'Pocket' along the top, the 'GPS' along the bottom with the satelite across the middle. However, on my computer, it is not possible to read either of the words, or really identify the satelite.
I am not being super critical here either as I can easily read the text on other other icons on my desktop.
This is only on my WinXP machine. On my Vista machine, I get the normal IE icon in the address bar and on my desktop the icon is a world with a PDA to the right of it.
Ref the possible cached version, if it's an old version that I'm looking at how can I flush it from the cache to get the new one?

PaulB2005 · Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 9:27 am Post subject:

MaFt · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 3:00 am Post subject:

M8TJT · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:01 am Post subject:

Still blurry. Must be my eyes Sad

Darren · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:11 am Post subject:

M8TJT · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:33 am Post subject:

No.
The correct one looks fine and dandy.
I suspect the the refresh routines above don't work on my set up. Having said that, how did the favicon get onto my machine in the first place???
I don't have either the address bar icon or the larger desktop icon on my Vista laptop.
I'll see if I can post a picture of what I can see later.

Darren · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:37 am Post subject:

I wouldn't worry about it, the why's and where's of the whole 'favicon' thing appear to be a lottery dependent on browser version, OS, ISP etc etc. It will doubtless change eventually to the current version!
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MaFt · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:57 am Post subject:

Oldboy · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:58 am Post subject:

Darren · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 8:13 am Post subject:

You're all served the same code so that isn't the issue. Have a search on the web for 'favicon not displaying' and you will see that it's not an uncommon issue.
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MaFt · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:45 pm Post subject:

iirc, ie will only show the favicon when you have it as a favourite.

also the 'extra' code you posted isn't part of the favicon code - just extra info on the page (hence i edited it out!)

MaFt

Oldboy · Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:48 am Post subject:

I didn't explain myself very clearly.

META data normally has 1 item per line. This has 2 items concatenated on the one line: the LINK and the META.

I didn't know if some browsers might interpret this differently.

It's not something that bothers me personally as it doesn't interfere with my usage. Smile

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MaFt · Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:55 am Post subject:

browsers should read the '>' as an 'end' of the link tag and the '<' as the start of the meta tag so i can't see it being an issue (even if it may techincally be 'poor' coding Wink

MaFt

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