@EricTheO: What browser do you use? There is currently a favicon, as Jeff stated, but I notice it doesn't work in IE. I know it at least works in Firefox and Chrome.
@natetodamax: An icon associated with browser favorites. They're not just for favorite sites anymore though, as most browsers display the favicon at all times.
Apart from the fact that it sucks and blows in every concievable manner? "
I believe you you need to use different code to get a favicon to appear in IE than you do in Firefox. I'd guess they haven't got the code for the IE icon on the site.
Note: I am not a web developer, and I have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about. That might be complete rubbish, but I seem to remember someone saying that sometime, so it might be true.
Give Internet Explorer some credit. It was the first browser to implement favicons in the first place. Implementation of favicons required an ICO (image/x-icon) file called favicon.ico to be located in the website's root directory.
Eventually Microsoft added support for the link tag, allowing pages to use favicons stored in other directories. It didn't properly conform to W3C standards, with "shortcut icon" being two words and image/x-icon not being a registered MIME type. But favicon support is now properly standardized, allowing favicons to be located anywhere on the site and used without issue.
Well, mostly without issue. The W3C standard dictates that the favicon must be a PNG (image/png), GIF (image/gif), or ICO (now registered as image/vnd.microsoft.icon), but Internet Explorer only supports ICO files (image/vnd.microsoft.icon). Not only that, but some browsers also support JPEG (image/jpeg) and animated PNG images, which could lead to additional problems should a web developer elect to use those unsupported formats.
It's an incorrect implementation of an incorrectly created "standard". My advice: get rid of favicon.ico in the root directory. The only browsers that would load that file went out of use ages ago. Then take your favicon.ico file on media.giantbomb.com and rename it to favicon.gif. Change the link tag in the header to point to that favicon.gif file. Be sure to change the MIME type as well: Not only does it misrepresent the file's format potentially causing problems in some browsers, image/x-icon became image/vnd.microsoft.icon when the format was finally registered with the IANA in 2003.
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