Pie charts in your favicon

This is cool. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me in Safari 6.0 on OS X 10.8. The title updates but the favicon stays as the default GitHub icon: http://imgur.com/kIzXX

Re: Pie charts in your favicon

#5

Post by cleverjake » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 8:56 PM UTC

Last time I checked (~3 months ago) canvas rendered favicons lead to HUGE memory leaks in Chrome.

I love this effect, but I had to remove it from my app. If you were only using it on a page that is navigated away from, then this will work great, most likely.

Re: Pie charts in your favicon

#6

Post by jfoutz » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 8:58 PM UTC

I still like defender more. http://www.p01.org/releases/DEFENDER_of_the_favicon/

Re: Pie charts in your favicon

#7

Post by thegoleffect » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 8:58 PM UTC

Can you put a link to the actual github page on this page (for the lazy).

https://github.com/lipka/piecon

Re: Pie charts in your favicon

#8

Post by taylorfausak » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 9:03 PM UTC

cleverjake wrote: post #5

Last time I checked (~3 months ago) canvas rendered favicons lead to HUGE memory leaks in Chrome. I love this effect, but I had to remove it from my app. If you were only using it on a page that is navigated away from, then this will work great, most likely.

Looks like lipka is aware of that: https://github.com/lipka/piecon/issues/1

Re: Pie charts in your favicon

#9

Post by arrogant » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 10:19 PM UTC

dag11 wrote: post #2

Neat. Reminds me of the favicon tetris. This could be very useful for an in-tab "progress bar".

In case anyone else hasn't seen this: http://favris.info/

Re: Pie charts in your favicon

#10

Post by DigitalSea » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 10:26 PM UTC

Memory leaks aside in Chrome, this is amazing and I can't wait to see how people use this.