November 15, 2006

Animated favicons? Ooh.

Hey, this is pretty cool.

You can have animated favicons in Firefox! The icons for each site on the Firefox tabs are animated and when you bookmark them, the bookmark icon is animated too. A quick peek at the HTML of a page with animated favicons shows they simply have a 16×16 animated gif and point the page to that as their favicon with this:

link xhref=”images/favico.gif” TYPE=”image/gif” REL=”icon”

That can be pretty slick, if it’s done well. I’ll have to add one. Need to add transparency, too.


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