Hasty Treat - The Surprisingly Exciting World of Favicons
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about favicons. Favicons are a bit of mystery and something people don’t talk about that often.
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Show Notes
03:48 - What are favicons?
- Requesting favicons by default /favicon.ico
07:38 - Sizing favicons
- 16x16 is OG - don’t do that now
- You can specify multiple sizes
09:41 - File formats
- .ico files
- .png favicons
13:40 - Animated favicons
- Canvas Base64
11:36 - SVG favicons
17:19 - Dark mode favicons
18:55 - App Coloring
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- Isn’t there a new Safari version?
Links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon
- https://caniuse.com/
- https://keycode.info/
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/icons
- https://fav.farm/
- https://deno.land/
- https://uses.tech/
- Missive
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