I am suffering from a strange, uh, bug.
I have some html that the W3C W3C Markup Validation Service says has
zero problems.
I have some images placed into table cells. This works perfectly on
IE8, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. But …
When I add the following single haml line to the head
%link{‘rel’ => “shortcut icon”, ‘href’ => “/images/UltraDedup-
icon-003—16x16.ico”, ‘type’ => “image/x-icon”}
then the images get displaced on the web page on IE8. The other
browsers continue to work perfectly.
The above haml line generates the following html:
I assume that I am experiencing an IE8 bug and/or incompatibility.
I have the following questions:
-
What is the rails and/or haml way to generate html that tests if it
is running IE and suppresses the above link if it is? Can this be done
via javascript? -
Where do I put the
favicon.ico (== /images/UltraDedup-icon-003—16x16.ico) file in the
rails tree structure so that IE finds it without needing the link
statement that seems to screw things up? -
IE8 seems to cache the shortcut icon (favicon.ico). How do I clear
that so that I get the latest and greatest?