Thursday, May 12, 2005
I had a lovely piece about favicons prepared for this morning. Favicons are those tiny 16x16 graphics that you probably see displayed in your browser's address bar or in your list of bookmarks on certain websites. I spent last night preparing a tiny clickable gallery of 49 favicons from blogs that I like. It took me ages to locate as many as 49 favicons and to save each one as a tiny jpeg or gif and to make them all clickable, but the final montage looked really rather impressive. Or at least it did in Firefox. And then I checked my handiwork in Internet Explorer and I was mortified to discover that 40 of the miniature works of art were suddenly unreadable, replaced instead by the 'red cross of death'. And it seemed pointless to put up a post that most of you wouldn't be able to read, so what a complete waste of time all my coding last night was. Thank you Mr Gates. Here are the only 9 favicons (out of 49) that display properly in IE:
Sigh. Anyway, I'm sure you get the idea. Favicons really are a very good thing for identifying websites, and it's amazing how creative people can be in just 256 pixels. If your blog doesn't have one, you can create your own favicon here. Then you just save the resulting image file to the root directory of your server, probably as favicon.ico, and other people's browsers do the rest. Really, honest, it is worth the effort - I know 40 other examples that look equally as good. Sigh.
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