Comments on: Dynamic Favicons

By: MQJ04091977

MQJ04091977 — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:14:15 +0000

Does anyone know if the issue with IE and Safari have been resolved? i.e., can I use dynamic favicons with IE and Safari now? Does this works for Chrome as well?

By: nicolas

nicolas — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 04:13:44 +0000

there is one free favicon generator.
http://www.webscriptlab.com, Free and easy to use online tool that can create a favorites icon (favicon.ico) images for browser address bars, favorites and tabs, from pictures, logos and other graphics.

By: High Earth Orbit » Blog Archive » Favicon as quick status

High Earth Orbit » Blog Archive » Favicon as quick status — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:13:19 +0000

[...] Here is a tutorial on how to use javascript to change a site’s favicon (via Ajaxian). [...]

By: splintor

splintor — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:36:59 +0000

http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2006/03/pick-your-own-favicons-for-other-sites.html

By: Software As She’s Developed - Dynamic Favicons

Software As She’s Developed - Dynamic Favicons — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:54:48 +0000

[...] Crikey! Dugg and on Delicious Popular. And, well, Ajaxian too . Digg is interesting … The last time I submitted my own story to digg, it got precisely two diggs (thanks to the other guy!). This time, I didn’t bother. Is there a moral here? [...]

By: Laurian Gridinoc

Laurian Gridinoc — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:58:49 +0000

I was playing with the idea to have in the favicon a sparkline with some relevant information within the labeled page. Now, it would be more interesting to do this client side, with data uri.

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By: Laurian Gridinoc

Laurian Gridinoc — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:57:09 +0000

I was playing with the idea to have in the favicon a sparkline with some relevant information within the labeled page. Now, it would be more interesting to do this client side, with data uri.

By: Daniel, Rogue Connect

Daniel, Rogue Connect — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:45:02 +0000

Pretty clever concept! I can see this becoming as prolific as the blink tag did in the late 90′s, much to the webs detriment ;)

By: aNieto2K | De todo un poco » Favicons dinÃ¡micos

aNieto2K | De todo un poco » Favicons dinÃ¡micos — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:25:19 +0000

[...] Via Ajaxian, encuentro la forma de hacer que nuestros favicons se muevan dinÃ¡micamente mediante el Ãºso de Javascript [ver ejemplo, ejemplo interactivo], pero en LinuxMan nos deleitÃ³ con algo parecido esto hace unos meses, algo mÃ¡s simple, pero igual de chulo . Solamente sin visibles desde Firefox y Opera. [...]

By: trav

trav — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:12:24 +0000

That’s pretty c00l, but what would be really great is if someone would write some ajax code that makes the text blink on and off in a specified element.

By: Gilles

Gilles — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 18:10:30 +0000

In addition to alexander… This means you can also use animated gifs (as shown on http://www.bugmenot.com/

By: alexander

alexander — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:38:09 +0000

Could be worth mentioning that its also possible to use regular gif/jpgs/pngs (the last one preferably) for favicons.

By: Bart Claeys

Bart Claeys — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:52:17 +0000

Isn’t Meebo.com using this technique to notify a user that a new instant message has arrived?

Grtz, Bart

By: Tim Leonard

Tim Leonard — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:10:04 +0000

Your not alone!!! :)

First experiment will obviously be an animation… but…

if anything, I’d probably use this to notify when a message has arrived in one of the interfaces I’ll build upcoming.

But as it doesn’t work in IE, changing the title instead would be more cross-browser effective. (that is… if you’re wanting to notify the user while their browser window is minimized)

By: Sam Foster

Sam Foster — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:01:41 +0000

Reminds me of background color fadins and document title tickers back in Netscape 3. There may be legitimate uses for this (like the change notification the author mentions), but on the face of it its a new classic “stupid web trick” which all the script kiddies will want – congratulations :)

Sam
(who is whipping out his icon editor to give it a whirl immediately)