Favicon for news.ycombinator

16 points by jsmcgd 19y ago ↗ HN

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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

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://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

joshwa 19y ago ↗

looks like pg added the favicon!

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 redirects to the icon at 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 :)