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November 2004

Favatars: automated favicon avatars [via]



huphtur wrote on 2004/11/30:
you gonna do those on here milo?
(i got me dns back!)


Milo wrote on 2004/11/30:
Working on it... :)


huphtur wrote on 2004/11/30:
i better start cranking on a 16x16


Milo wrote on 2004/11/30:
I guess I'd better design a prettier favicon for myself as well.


Milo wrote on 2004/11/30:
You can try it out now! (well, as soon as you have a site with a link rel="shortcut icon" tag.)


huphtur wrote on 2004/12/01:
how bout now?


Milo wrote on 2004/12/01:
Nice one!


Mathieu 'P01' HENRI wrote on 2004/12/01:
I love this idea.


Mathieu+'P01'+HENRI wrote on 2004/12/01:
:p the black background is not at the advantage of the favicon/favatar of my main domain


Mathieu 'P01' HENRI wrote on 2004/12/01:
sorry, for the multiple post.


Arthur wrote on 2004/12/01:
Yay! Testing time!


Arthur wrote on 2004/12/01:
And another one. Animated gifs as favicon don't work in IE, I just found out.


Milo wrote on 2004/12/01:
Hmm the autodetect failed on that one, so I added it manually for you... Trying again now.


Low wrote on 2004/12/01:
Sweeeet!


huphtur wrote on 2004/12/01:
milo: what about some sort of local cache for these icons? the page starts to load slower and slower already.

(and animated favicons are so pre2k)


Milo wrote on 2004/12/01:
Some icons load slow but that shouldn't have an effect on pageload (other than the annoyance of seeing the throbber animate a little longer). But I want to try caching anyway, in case people start changing their icons retroactively.

Note: you might have noticed the big slowdown around 15:11 - 15:15 (and repeated every hour); that's caused by some cron-job outside of my control (from a separate site running on this server) :/


eazy wrote on 2004/12/02:
cute ;-)


Ruben wrote on 2004/12/03:
Interesting idea. But I think I saw that somewhere before.


Ruben wrote on 2004/12/03:
Yep, here it is: http://victor.carotena.net/projects/mtplugins/mticon.php


Jan! wrote on 2004/12/05:
Oh, neat-o!


Jan! wrote on 2004/12/05:
Oops, didn't have the link rel


Jan! wrote on 2004/12/05:
Hmm, rel='shortcut icon' didn't do the trick. Maybe with double instead of single quotes, then...


Jan! wrote on 2004/12/05:
Yay! :-)


Milo wrote on 2004/12/07:
Testing url with subdir...


Milo wrote on 2004/12/07:
And again.


Mathieu 'P01' HENRI wrote on 2005/01/21:
testing


Mathieu+'P01'+HENRI wrote on 2005/01/21:
?! if the userAgent is Gecko my site uses :

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.charly.gif" type="image/gif" />

otherwise it simply uses :

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

Does it break with your favicon detection in a way ?


Milo wrote on 2005/01/21:
I'm looking into it :)
My php routine probably doesn't send any userAgent, so it should trigger the second line. Should still've worked though :/


Mathieu+'P01'+HENRI wrote on 2005/01/21:
It may ( certainly ) comes from the HTTP redirection from the root of my domain to the path: /news/latest_news/


Milo wrote on 2005/01/21:
test with your url, built-in redirect detection, should catch the correct favicon


Milo wrote on 2005/01/21:
Say, Mathieu, did you see this? Looks like http://www.p01.org/favicon.ico isn't executed as php as you probably intended.


Mathieu+'P01'+HENRI wrote on 2005/01/21:
Doh, IE's cache tricked me. I thought I had replaced this method by a detection made in the header included on each page.