Preferred way to use favicons? | I was trying to add a favicon to a website earlier and looked for a better way to implement this than to dump a `favicon.ico` file in the root of the website.


I found this nice little guide: [How to Add a Favicon](http://www.w3.org/2005/10/howto-favicon). However, the preferred method did not work in IE (7) and the second method is the old fashioned way (which I resigned myself to use).


Is there a third method that works across all the most popular browsers?