You need to look at the ground. Right moves your ship to the right, but also shifts the camera to the right, so you can see where you're going. That results in the ship actually moving to the left side of the frame.
You are right on your second point. I think that there needs to be a 'favimage' that works for everything including the original use case plus those personal web app icons, start menu tiles, Google search results, twitter cards, Facebook open graph images and other social media applications. If this new format was responsive SVG with image embeds then it should work fine on the many different canvas sizes.
Somewhat off-topic: Can you still serve up 30GB favicons? Some friends and I used to prank each other with large favicon files. It just so happened that mobile browsers would keep downloading massive favicon files in the background even if you left the page. The unintended effect was a rather large mobile roaming bill for data-overage for one of our friends, which we paid.
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Jokes aside this is pretty neat. I feel like the concept of the favicon should be re-evaluated to consider the common use cases of today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_Vector_Icon_Format
The framerate isn't great - is drawing to the favicon inherently slow, or can it be improved? - but it's at least somewhat playable.