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== Overview ==
'''ICO''' is a Microsoft Windows icon format. Among other uses, it is the only format supported by the Internet Explorer browser for [[Favicon]]s, though other browsers support a wider variety of graphic formats for this use. Although the official MIME type, in Microsoft's own vendor space (image/vnd.microsoft.icon) has been registered since 2003, it has yet to be supported in MSIE; webmasters still need to serve their favicons as image/x-icon for it to work correctly in that browser.
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'''ICO''' is a Microsoft Windows icon format.
  
 
ICO files can have multiple icon images of different sizes in the same file, so that programs displaying them can pick the size that is appropriate for a particular use. Image data within the file is either in [[BMP]] or [[PNG]] format, with some header bytes defined by the ICO standard.
 
ICO files can have multiple icon images of different sizes in the same file, so that programs displaying them can pick the size that is appropriate for a particular use. Image data within the file is either in [[BMP]] or [[PNG]] format, with some header bytes defined by the ICO standard.
  
 
[[CUR]] (cursor) files are in a nearly identical format with only a few bytes different.
 
[[CUR]] (cursor) files are in a nearly identical format with only a few bytes different.
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== See also ==
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* [[Favicon]]
  
 
== References ==
 
== References ==
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICO_%28file_format%29 ICO (Wikipedia)]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICO_%28file_format%29 ICO (Wikipedia)]
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Revision as of 07:39, 2 March 2013

File Format
Name ICO
Ontology
Extension(s) .ico
MIME Type(s) image/vnd.microsoft.icon, image/x-icon

Overview

ICO is a Microsoft Windows icon format.

ICO files can have multiple icon images of different sizes in the same file, so that programs displaying them can pick the size that is appropriate for a particular use. Image data within the file is either in BMP or PNG format, with some header bytes defined by the ICO standard.

CUR (cursor) files are in a nearly identical format with only a few bytes different.

See also

References

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