Rune Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Wow, someone managed to cram Tetris into the favicon of a page. Should only work on Chrome and Firefox. http://favris.info/ Stemkoski and ozdy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vince Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 This is plain awesomeness! Any idea how did they do it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rune Posted October 2, 2013 Author Share Posted October 2, 2013 Apparently you can dynamically update the favicon. Im sure its some mix of that and just some canvas magic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remvst Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Apparently you can dynamically update the favicon. Im sure its some mix of that and just some canvas magic.Probably. This is what I used for my js13k entry ( http://blb.remvst.com/ ): the favicon is a base64-encoded canvas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YellowAfterlife Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 Favicons can be changed JS-side to most Image elements. Generally this is a lot less amazing than public would perceive. Perhaps the largest use of such API is going to be displaying of notifications or adjusting icon to reflect page contents (to assist navigation). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remvst Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 Favicons can be changed JS-side to most Image elements.Generally this is a lot less amazing than public would perceive.Perhaps the largest use of such API is going to be displaying of notifications or adjusting icon to reflect page contents (to assist navigation).Now that you say it, I'm surprised websites like Facebook don't use this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YellowAfterlife Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 Now that you say it, I'm surprised websites like Facebook don't use this.It's an interesting question as to why they don't. I imagine that the cause would be about low cross-browser-ness of this solution. Someone already made a library for this though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dev Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 It's an interesting question as to why they don't.I imagine that the cause would be about low cross-browser-ness of this solution.Someone already made a library for this though. Hehe, this is pretty cool but also a bit of a gimmick. One reason FB wouldn't use it is because it's generally useful for websites to prevent brand confusion. Particularly for large websites where privacy / security is a big issue, it's generally not a good idea to change logo's, domain names etc too much, because those are usually the first and easiest signs of sloppy phishing websites. Think Paypal, Facebook etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p01 Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 *cough* DEFENDER OF THE FAVICON *cough* Later I made a few more favicon games for a campaign for the Mercedes Smart for Two with Jung Von Matt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 Interesting gimmick! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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