Posted by Roy Schestowitz on 04/22/06 09:50

__/ [ Neredbojias ] on Saturday 22 April 2006 04:25 \__

> To further the education of mankind, "frederick"
> <frederick@southernskies.co.uk> vouchsafed:
>
>> Neredbojias wrote:
>>> To further the education of mankind, Roy Schestowitz
>>> <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> vouchsafed:
>>> > http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/07/02/screenshots-on-lin
>>> > ks/
>>>
>>> I wonder if it's a mortal sin to covet thy neighbour's favicon?


People seem to hate it actually. I have received complaints (requests for
removal, desire for a plug-ins that disables such motion). Its effect
offline (when steering away) can be seen among the bookmarks, which is
somewhat of a nuisance to most. I simply got used to it, but others have not
because it stands out too strongly.

Speaking of favicons, last week I realised that Firefox 1.5 makes a
favicon-like preview/thumbnail for pages that are purely images. Same for
videos one day? Sounds on MouseHover?


>> It is when they're animated!!
>
> Then I'm in luck. My neighbours are a sedentary lot (unless you slip a
> little grain alcohol in their geritol.)
>
>>
>> And the arrow-based navigation is... "interesting".
>>
>>> Nice page, btw.
>>
>> {sobs}


Thanks for the compliment. *smile* I lost confidence in the odd design of
that page -- a design that goes back to late 2004.

FWIW, I put up instructions for animated favicons at
http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/12/05/animated-favicons/ . I
worked on this as soon as I had come across the first animated favicon, so I
might be among the first few thousands(?). It's rare and unusual, so it
leaves a mental mark, I think.

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