Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A symbol or graphic associated with a website.
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- noun web design An
icon associated with a particularwebsite , and typically displayed in theaddress bar of abrowser viewing the site.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Make sure to name them appropriately if you load both BrainPOP and BrainPOP jr. links as the favicon is the same for both.
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The tern "favicon" is short for "favorite icon", and as such Internet Explorer will only display the favicon of a site if the site is recognized as one of your favorites (ie: if you have bookmarked the site in your browser!).
Vigilante Sports 2009
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The tern "favicon" is short for "favorite icon", and as such Internet Explorer will only display the favicon of a site if the site is recognized as one of your favorites (ie: if you have bookmarked the site in your browser!).
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Offering up a favicon is not a solution and asking the user to have an image already is completely unreasonable given how easy it should be to find a suitable image for them.
Prism 1.0 Brings Dock/System Tray Integration To Your Webapps | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Having a favicon is yet another way to establish your identity and make it easier for people to remember your site among a pile of places.
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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The favicon is such a simple piece of promotion, you really should have no excuse for not implementing it straight away.
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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Creating a favicon is quite easy if you are, well, creative.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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Having a favicon is yet another way to establish your identity and make it easier for people to remember your site among a pile of places.
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The favicon is such a simple piece of promotion, you really should have no excuse for not implementing it straight away.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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Having a favicon is yet another way to establish your identity and make it easier for people to remember your site among a pile of places.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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The concept of a favicon, which is short for “favorite icon”, have been around since the early 2000s.
How to Favicon in 2022: Six files that fit most needs—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog Andrey Sitnik 2023
thebighenry commented on the word favicon
From netlingo:
favorite icon
The name for a small icon used in Internet Explorer (version 5 and higher) to identify a favorite or a bookmark.
When users visit certain Web sites, you may see a "favicon" in the browser address bar next to the URL, and in your list of favorites next to the title of the Web site you've bookmarked. Favicons act as a branded icon as these small images are often modified versions of a company's logo. Most browsers support favicons, including IE 5/6+, Firefox 1+, Mozilla 1+, Netscape 7+, Opera 7+, Konqueror 3+, and Safari.
June 7, 2008