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Favicon for news.ycombinator

16 points by jsmcgd 19y ago

jsmcgd 19y ago
Hi there. Really selfish post but I'd quite like it if news.ycombinator could provide a favicon. The only reason for this is so that my bookmarks toolbar doesn't have to have any text just icons for each site. Sorry it's a bit OCD but it'd really make my day. Cheers.
paulgb 19y ago
Heres a quick and dirty .ico created from the icon: http://www.paulbutler.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/yfavicon.ico http://www.paulbutler.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/yfavicon.ico
- run4yourlives 19y ago
  Created? You sure you didn't hit "view image"? :-)
  - paulgb 19y ago
    As I said, it is a q&d .ico created from the image. I didn't change anything, just cropped out a few pixels to make it 16x16 and saved it as an .ico file.
    - run4yourlives 19y ago
      I know, I was just teasing you... hence the emoction.
brlewis 19y ago
I used ppmtowinicon to make the ourdoings.com favicon. No need to boot into Windows. Thanks to utilities like that plus WINE for IE testing, I haven't had to boot Windows since I got the XP web publishing wizard integration done.
staunch 19y ago
I use web-based icon generators, here's two I bookmarked that are pretty useful: http://antifavicon.com/ http://antifavicon.com/ http://www.degraeve.com/favicon/ http://www.degraeve.com/favicon/
ralph 19y ago
See the problem caused by /favicon.ico not returning 404 at the moment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28315 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28315
joshwa 19y ago
looks like pg added the favicon! http://ycombinator.com/favicon.ico http://ycombinator.com/favicon.ico
- paulgb 19y ago
  Cool. It doesn't show up in FireFox for news.ycombinator.com though, even with a hard refresh.
  - bjun 19y ago
    it is a different domain ;-)
    - paulgb 19y ago
      Yeah (well, a different subdomain ;-) ), but http://news.ycombinator.com/favicon.ico http://news.ycombinator.com/favicon.ico redirects to the icon at http://ycombinator.com/favicon.ico http://ycombinator.com/favicon.ico . It seems the browser don't follow the redirect (IE doesn't seem to either).
jsmcgd 19y ago
Sweet. Thanks very much. You really have made my day :)

16 points by jsmcgd 19y ago

Hi there. Really selfish post but I'd quite like it if news.ycombinator could provide a favicon. The only reason for this is so that my bookmarks toolbar doesn't have to have any text just icons for each site. Sorry it's a bit OCD but it'd really make my day. Cheers.

paulgb 19y ago

Heres a quick and dirty .ico created from the icon: http://www.paulbutler.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/yfavicon.ico http://www.paulbutler.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/yfavicon.ico

run4yourlives 19y ago
Created? You sure you didn't hit "view image"? :-)
- paulgb 19y ago
  As I said, it is a q&d .ico created from the image. I didn't change anything, just cropped out a few pixels to make it 16x16 and saved it as an .ico file.
  - run4yourlives 19y ago
    I know, I was just teasing you... hence the emoction.

brlewis 19y ago

I used ppmtowinicon to make the ourdoings.com favicon. No need to boot into Windows. Thanks to utilities like that plus WINE for IE testing, I haven't had to boot Windows since I got the XP web publishing wizard integration done.

staunch 19y ago

I use web-based icon generators, here's two I bookmarked that are pretty useful: http://antifavicon.com/ http://antifavicon.com/ http://www.degraeve.com/favicon/ http://www.degraeve.com/favicon/

ralph 19y ago

See the problem caused by /favicon.ico not returning 404 at the moment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28315 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28315

joshwa 19y ago

looks like pg added the favicon! http://ycombinator.com/favicon.ico http://ycombinator.com/favicon.ico

paulgb 19y ago
Cool. It doesn't show up in FireFox for news.ycombinator.com though, even with a hard refresh.
- bjun 19y ago
  it is a different domain ;-)
  - paulgb 19y ago
    Yeah (well, a different subdomain ;-) ), but http://news.ycombinator.com/favicon.ico http://news.ycombinator.com/favicon.ico redirects to the icon at http://ycombinator.com/favicon.ico http://ycombinator.com/favicon.ico . It seems the browser don't follow the redirect (IE doesn't seem to either).

jsmcgd 19y ago

Sweet. Thanks very much. You really have made my day :)