Thread: favicons

favicons

From
Peter Eisentraut
Date:
There is a bizarre favicon inconsistency developing on *.postgresql.org 
subsites:

www et al.        blue elephant
wiki            none
developer        black elephant
archives        blue elephant
buildfarm        black elephant
git            black elephant
www.postgresqlfr.org    WTH???

Is there a secret meaning behind the black elephant or should we all move to 
the blue one?


Re: favicons

From
"Joshua D. Drake"
Date:
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On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:16:46 +0100
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:

> There is a bizarre favicon inconsistency developing on
> *.postgresql.org subsites:
> 
> www et al.        blue elephant
> wiki            none
> developer        black elephant
> archives        blue elephant
> buildfarm        black elephant
> git            black elephant
> www.postgresqlfr.org    WTH???

postgresqlfr is drupal.

Joshua D. Drake



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Re: favicons

From
"Dave Page"
Date:
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> There is a bizarre favicon inconsistency developing on *.postgresql.org
> subsites:
>
> www et al.              blue elephant
> wiki                    none
> developer               black elephant
> archives                blue elephant
> buildfarm               black elephant
> git                     black elephant
> www.postgresqlfr.org    WTH???
>
> Is there a secret meaning behind the black elephant or should we all move to
> the blue one?

Black for developer sites, blue for user? I don't think there's any
plan behind it though, just coincidence. I'm happy to use the blue one
everywhere.

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Re: favicons

From
Guillaume Lelarge
Date:
Dave Page a écrit :
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
>> There is a bizarre favicon inconsistency developing on *.postgresql.org
>> subsites:
>>
>> www et al.              blue elephant
>> wiki                    none
>> developer               black elephant
>> archives                blue elephant
>> buildfarm               black elephant
>> git                     black elephant
>> www.postgresqlfr.org    WTH???
>>
>> Is there a secret meaning behind the black elephant or should we all move to
>> the blue one?
> 
> Black for developer sites, blue for user? I don't think there's any
> plan behind it though, just coincidence. I'm happy to use the blue one
> everywhere.
> 

Perhaps we can do like the mozilla folks just did a few days ago. They 
have different favicons for their different websites but they at least 
keep a small mozilla head on each of them. See http://www.mozilla.org/ 
with the red lizard head, see http://wiki.mozilla.org with the book and 
a small red lizard head. You can also get a look here 
http://www.chevrel.org/fr/carnet/index.php?2008/02/29/698-nouvelles-favicones-pour-les-sites-mozilla 
(french text but the toolbar seems to me self explanatory).

Regards.


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Re: favicons

From
Alvaro Herrera
Date:
Guillaume Lelarge wrote:

> Perhaps we can do like the mozilla folks just did a few days ago. They  
> have different favicons for their different websites but they at least  
> keep a small mozilla head on each of them. See http://www.mozilla.org/  
> with the red lizard head, see http://wiki.mozilla.org with the book and  
> a small red lizard head. You can also get a look here  
> http://www.chevrel.org/fr/carnet/index.php?2008/02/29/698-nouvelles-favicones-pour-les-sites-mozilla 
> (french text but the toolbar seems to me self explanatory).

Nice idea, though my first reaction to the toolbar was "what the heck
are those little red butterflies".  I'm not sure if you're going to be
able to fit an elephant on a small area leaving enough space for the
other icon behind it.

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The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.


Re: favicons

From
Magnus Hagander
Date:
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 19:29 +0000, Dave Page wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> > There is a bizarre favicon inconsistency developing on *.postgresql.org
> > subsites:
> >
> > www et al.              blue elephant
> > wiki                    none
> > developer               black elephant
> > archives                blue elephant
> > buildfarm               black elephant
> > git                     black elephant
> > www.postgresqlfr.org    WTH???
> >
> > Is there a secret meaning behind the black elephant or should we all move to
> > the blue one?
> 
> Black for developer sites, blue for user? I don't think there's any
> plan behind it though, just coincidence. I'm happy to use the blue one
> everywhere.

I'm fairly certain it's "old sites" -> "ugly black elephant" and "new
sites" -> "pretty blue elephant".

Then git and buildfarm probably just copied it off
developer.postgresql.org without checking what was available :-)

personally, I like the blue one much better, and would suggest we switch
all postgresql.org sites to it :-)

//Magnus


Re: favicons

From
"Greg Sabino Mullane"
Date:
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> Is there a secret meaning behind the black elephant or should
> we all move to the blue one?

Basically, I created the black version de novo in March of 2002
because the project did not have one yet. At some point the newer
blue one was created, but many sites used the black one because
the blue was not yet created (or because they liked it better?)
I'd not be too upset if the black one was replaced, but I'll
point out that mine weighs in at a mere 124 bytes, which indicates
the blue one, at 2550 bytes, might be in need of a vacuum full. :)

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Re: favicons

From
Tom Lane
Date:
"Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com> writes:
> Basically, I created the black version de novo in March of 2002
> because the project did not have one yet. At some point the newer
> blue one was created, but many sites used the black one because
> the blue was not yet created (or because they liked it better?)
> I'd not be too upset if the black one was replaced, but I'll
> point out that mine weighs in at a mere 124 bytes, which indicates
> the blue one, at 2550 bytes, might be in need of a vacuum full. :)

pngcrush?
        regards, tom lane


Re: favicons

From
Peter Eisentraut
Date:
Am Mittwoch, 12. März 2008 schrieb Magnus Hagander:
> personally, I like the blue one much better, and would suggest we switch
> all postgresql.org sites to it :-)

Where is the original version of this image, so I can convert it to the format 
I need?


Re: favicons

From
Magnus Hagander
Date:
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 12. März 2008 schrieb Magnus Hagander:
> > personally, I like the blue one much better, and would suggest we
> > switch all postgresql.org sites to it :-)
>
> Where is the original version of this image, so I can convert it to
> the format I need?

The favicon? You can just grab it from the website, no? All websites
need the same format, AFAIK?

While I haven't looked at it (since I didn't turn it into the .ico), I
think there are high res (or vector even) version of it available on
the graphics project on pgFoundry.

//Magnus


Re: favicons

From
Peter Eisentraut
Date:
Am Montag, 21. April 2008 schrieb Magnus Hagander:
> The favicon? You can just grab it from the website, no? All websites
> need the same format, AFAIK?

I need a PNG format file, but I got one now by "unpacking" the favicon.ico.