Pie charts in your favicon • Hacker News Board

arrogant wrote: post #9

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/

It seems to work in Firefox 15.0 as well as Chromium.

Re: Pie charts in your favicon

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Post by aMtnViewer » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 11:15 PM UTC

taylorfausak wrote: post #4

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

safari sucks

Re: Pie charts in your favicon

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Post by ohgodthecat3 » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 11:15 PM UTC

mattacular wrote: post #11

I think I read that Firefox might be ditching the favicon in the location bar for some reason?

It is because some shady sites were putting a lock icon as the favicon to make you think it was secured so the tab is the better place for them.

Re: Pie charts in your favicon

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Post by seppo0010 » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 11:26 PM UTC

taylorfausak wrote: post #4

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

https://github.com/lipka/piecon

Browser Support

Piecon has been tested to work completely in the following browsers (older versions may be supported, but haven't been tested):

- Chrome 15+ - Firefox 9+ - Opera 11+ Currently the library falls back to title updates for the following browsers:

- Internet Explorer 9 - Safari 5

Re: Pie charts in your favicon

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Post by Revekius » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 11:35 PM UTC

I feel like this would be rather annoying and distracting. I could just imagine my 10+ tabs in Firefox having a pie chart or something blinking instead of a plain image.

It feels like were devolving to the old websites of flashy and blinking images trying to lure people in. Don't get me wrong though, it is neat! But... Where is that disable favicon extension now?

Re: Pie charts in your favicon

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Post by dkd903 » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 11:51 PM UTC

Revekius wrote: post #19

I feel like this would be rather annoying and distracting. I could just imagine my 10+ tabs in Firefox having a pie chart or something blinking instead of a plain image. It feels like were devolving to the old websites of flashy and blinking images trying to lure people in. Don't get me wrong though, it is neat! But... Where is that disable favicon extension now?

Another thing is that the fav icon is too small to use for any meaningful notification.