Talk:ICO (icon image file format)

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Removed link to IconConstructor Software - "allows to create Windows icons from any image for those who have no design skills"

[edit] Dubious

Does the ICO format use big-endian format to store its data? Intel typically uses little-endian, so the phrase "big-endian (Intel standard) format" seems doubly-wrong to me. -- pne (talk) 10:51, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Given that the MS sample code pays no attention to endian issues and MS pretty much exclusively targets little endian systems I think it's safe to assume it is little endian and whoever stated it was big endian was wrong. Plugwash (talk) 02:01, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Support for image/vnd.microsoft.icon

After some experimentation I found out that neither IE7 nor Opera nor Firefox only latest Opera and Firefox has support for image/vnd.microsoft.icon mime type. IE7 and older browsers don't, and will fail to render such files. Yet all work with image/x-icon just fine. Even Microsoft's own homepage server sends identification for its favicon as image/x-icon. Why don't they use the type they themselves registered? Apache 2 shipped with a default mapping of .ico to microsoft's mime-type (this is how I discovered it). But recent versions also dropped this idea and now use x-icon too.

So, is image/vnd.microsoft.icon dead? Theultramage (talk) 09:47, 13 April 2008 (UTC)