Thread: PostgreSQL favicon.ico
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Quick summary: I made a favicon.ico for PostgreSQL. Link below. Many sites use a favicon.ico file, which is a small bitmap located in the root diretory for a website. It is very small and web browsers typically use it as the icon for the site: it may appear in the title bar, the task bar, or next to the list of bookmarks. (Konquerer, for example, uses all three locations, while Netscape uses none, so YMMV). Google has a colorful "G", MySQL has a simplified dolphin, freshmeat has a yellow "][", and so on. I created one in GIMP for PostgreSQL, which was difficult given the limitation of a 16x16 pixel icon that still looks like an elephant. :) Zoomed up close it looks terrible, of course, but then so do all the other sites above. I've also managed to shrink it down to a mere 124 bytes. The fact that elephants are not very colorful helped in this. :) Hopefully this can become a part of postgresql.org - why should other sites have all the fun? Rather than try an attach the itty-bitty image to this email, I've set it up for the following domain. Just visit the page and hopefully your browser will show it to you in some form: http://elephant.gtsm.com/index.html Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200203011633 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: http://www.turnstep.com/pgp.html iD8DBQE8gA2PvJuQZxSWSsgRAiNhAKDVWengnRWeN7ju4uXhvJMsC2n4iACffL8x yHvhrAOdz8sm1nzMeJCJIq0= =tTU6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Hi Greg, I've had a favicon.ico on the techdocs site for several months now, so I guess we now have two alternatives. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Quick summary: I made a favicon.ico for PostgreSQL. Link below. > > Many sites use a favicon.ico file, which is a small bitmap located in the > root diretory for a website. It is very small and web browsers typically > use it as the icon for the site: it may appear in the title bar, the > task bar, or next to the list of bookmarks. (Konquerer, for example, > uses all three locations, while Netscape uses none, so YMMV). Google has > a colorful "G", MySQL has a simplified dolphin, freshmeat has a yellow > "][", and so on. > > I created one in GIMP for PostgreSQL, which was difficult given the > limitation of a 16x16 pixel icon that still looks like an elephant. :) > Zoomed up close it looks terrible, of course, but then so do all the other > sites above. I've also managed to shrink it down to a mere 124 bytes. The > fact that elephants are not very colorful helped in this. :) > > Hopefully this can become a part of postgresql.org - why should other sites > have all the fun? Rather than try an attach the itty-bitty image to this > email, I've set it up for the following domain. Just visit the page and > hopefully your browser will show it to you in some form: > > http://elephant.gtsm.com/index.html > > Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com > PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200203011633 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Comment: http://www.turnstep.com/pgp.html > > iD8DBQE8gA2PvJuQZxSWSsgRAiNhAKDVWengnRWeN7ju4uXhvJMsC2n4iACffL8x > yHvhrAOdz8sm1nzMeJCJIq0= > =tTU6 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? > > http://archives.postgresql.org -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 11:26:02PM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> Many sites use a favicon.ico file, which is a small bitmap located in the
> root diretory for a website.
This behaviour is deprecated, and instead people should use the link
keyword:
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/ico">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">
Curiously, Mozilla 0.9.8 removed the suport for /favicon.ico that 0.9.7
introduced... (Now it only supports <link />.)
Regards,
Luciano Rocha
--
Luciano Rocha, strange@nsk.yi.org
The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what
you want.
-- D. Cohen
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > I've had a favicon.ico on the techdocs site for several > months now, so I guess we now have two alternatives. :-) http://techdocs.postgresql.org http://elephant.gtsm.com/index.html Hrmm...that one seems to be 32x32. I had a hard time getting that same image to 16x16 and finally gave up and went with the elephant in the second URL above. It looks really cool on Konquerer. Perhaps the powers that be can add one or both to the main postgresql.org site? I might also point out that mine is 124 bytes, while a 404 message is 280, so you'll be saving bandwidth as well. :) Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200203281342 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: http://www.turnstep.com/pgp.html iD8DBQE8o2T8vJuQZxSWSsgRAqVYAJ94taIL/ckZz3nspp9CmnzdoM8gOwCeMaeK YuYuqMuTkJwA1BU/iLKjxtk= =wDO8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----