It Seems To Be Working

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It’s silly, it’s amateurish, it’s not a big deal, but we have a favicon. WooT.

Is there a way we can do this better? Can we improve upon it? We notice that when we make a bookmark, it doesn’t inherit the favicon. Did we screw this up?

Edit: Our bookmark icon works now. We didn’t change anything in the code, though. /puzzled

Blog | August 22, 2007

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12 Responses to “It Seems To Be Working”

  1. Karl on August 22nd, 2007 10:55 pm

    for a favicon, and considering you don’t have a true logo to use there, this looks pretty good.

    another option would be a red paw-print on white.

    BUt you only have 16×16 pixels to work with, so you can’t do too much.

    It is recognizable, so I say stick with this! (or try the paw-print… :-)

    There is another form of fav-ico that is a bit wider, but, not all browsers will view it.

  2. Karl on August 22nd, 2007 10:56 pm

    they can also be animated, but those can get annoying….

  3. John on August 22nd, 2007 11:10 pm

    Favicons are a browser-based convention, so they’re implemented differently by each browser.

    Generally, though, each bookmark maintains its own cached favicon, and it’s for some reason never retrieved when you make the bookmark, only when you USE the bookmark for the first time.

  4. Kruncs of Cho'gall on August 23rd, 2007 12:04 am

    I always liked the humourous Cowboy Bebop favicon here: http://www.icedomain.net

  5. RedForty on August 23rd, 2007 12:48 am

    I agree with having a paw print. I brushed one up here you could use ;-)

    http://redforty.com/10101/brk/brk1.gif

  6. RabidPoultry on August 23rd, 2007 12:54 am

    Heh nice dwarf there.

  7. RabidPoultry on August 23rd, 2007 12:55 am

    no Offence redforty

    But that looks like a Bear Paw.

  8. RedForty on August 23rd, 2007 1:23 am

    @ RabidPoultry

    lol, I have no clue. I just googled “cat paw print” and made one based on that.

    doh!

  9. Someone on August 23rd, 2007 12:34 pm

    Use the KISS principle and get a simpler and more recognizable icon: looks like a bit of a smudge…

  10. Doogie on August 23rd, 2007 6:18 pm

    If it’s not updating from the standard Blogger icon, just delete and remake the bookmark. It’ll show up after the first time you use the new bookmark.

  11. Phaelia on August 23rd, 2007 7:12 pm

    Looks good to me! And thanks for sharing how you did it. I’ve done the same on my blog using the code you provided.

  12. Anonymous on August 24th, 2007 7:19 pm

    Looks good but u need to set the transparent color… ftw!

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