pollute yo metadata with vendor crap. just like jpeg.
Favicon Cheatsheet
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#42I think I'm going to vomit if I see another web page written in the 21st century that condones the use of ICO format. Please, please, please can we have some kind of multi image PNG format ? How about multiple PNG images wrapped in a TIFF container ? With cross browser support, pretty please. Anything but ICO. ICO format is nasty.
Awww. Without formats like BMP, ICO and friends, there are so many fewer libraries to exploit buffer overflows in!
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try telling that to enterprise IT.
Let's say Google said it. "If you want to use Google, then you need to stop using IE." There would be some complaining, but they'd get it done. That's where the "balls" part comes in: you have to tell your users, that you just don't support their platform. Happens all the time, but for some reason browsers are treated specially and we all live in fear of losing the IE market share.
Someone did a calculation and decided that the business cost of supporting IE was worth the additional customers. It's not about balls, it's about cost benefit analysis. Us developers just hate IE because it's so different than all the other browsers.
also it sucks.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try telling that to enterprise IT.
Let's say Google said it. "If you want to use Google, then you need to stop using IE." There would be some complaining, but they'd get it done. That's where the "balls" part comes in: you have to tell your users, that you just don't support their platform. Happens all the time, but for some reason browsers are treated specially and we all live in fear of losing the IE market share.
That's also where the anti-trust lawyers come in. And you should be grateful for them.
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#45This collection of vendor-specific hacks is an excellent demonstration of the failure of the Web standards process.
Failure? There may be problems with the Web standards process but I don't think it could be classed a failure.
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#46For what its worth i made a tool a while back that takes a big image and makes a bunch of sizes for you as well as the code etc. I've not touched it in over a year but it still gets used every now and again. http://allthefavicons.com/
I remember this from the the original hacker news thread and still use it. Anything 'real' gets custom rendered icons for each size, but for side projects where the icon quality isn't critical it's very convenient.
For reference, the original HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529963
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#47For what its worth i made a tool a while back that takes a big image and makes a bunch of sizes for you as well as the code etc. I've not touched it in over a year but it still gets used every now and again. http://allthefavicons.com/
Can you open source this so I can beef it up please?
Edit: Actually, I just realized I can probably build this in a weekend with image magic.
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#48There is also this: http://favicon.io/
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#49I think I'm going to vomit if I see another web page written in the 21st century that condones the use of ICO format. Please, please, please can we have some kind of multi image PNG format ? How about multiple PNG images wrapped in a TIFF container ? With cross browser support, pretty please. Anything but ICO. ICO format is nasty.
ICO is a kind of multi image PNG format.
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#50I think I'm going to vomit if I see another web page written in the 21st century that condones the use of ICO format. Please, please, please can we have some kind of multi image PNG format ? How about multiple PNG images wrapped in a TIFF container ? With cross browser support, pretty please. Anything but ICO. ICO format is nasty.
ICO is a kind of multi image PNG format.
ICO is multi image BMP and it's poorly defined