Notificon: Client-side favicon notifications (github.com)

41 points by rehashed 14y ago ↗ HN

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This was inspired by the favicon notifications for gmail. I'll add an exception for clients without canvas, but it should be as fully compatible as is possible.

fomojola 14y ago ↗

Do you have an alternative URL: github appears to be down right now.

Nikkau 14y ago ↗

Google cache version works.

tuxcanfly 14y ago ↗

There's also a Notification API in HTML5

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/notifications/quick

jonknee 14y ago ↗

HTML5 notifications are great for some applications, but they require the user to grant permission before receiving notifications. It solves a different problem than the favicon notification technique.

k33n 14y ago ↗

Seems to not work if you use a .png instead of a .ico for your favicon.

rehashed 14y ago ↗

Both PNGs and ICOs should definitely work. Unless you specify a favicon in the function call, it will look for the one specified in your head. If one is not specified in your head it will use the default favicon location (/favicon.ico).

exogen 14y ago ↗

Is this working for anyone? I don't see any favicon changes in Chrome or Safari.

evanwalsh 14y ago ↗

Safari doesn't work for me, but Chrome does.

jonknee 14y ago ↗

It works for me in Chrome for Mac.

rehashed 14y ago ↗

It should work in Chrome 6 and above and Firefox 2 and above. There is no support for modifying favicons in other browsers client-side.

exogen 14y ago ↗

Weird – I'm using Chrome 14 and Safari 5 and don't see it. Firefox works though.

morsch 14y ago ↗

W4M in both Firefox (nightly) and Chrome in Ubuntu. Really cool, I can see lots of uses for this.