Here's the latest addition to the ever-growing collection of great favicons from around the web. These favicons are culled from all kinds of sites, but I've recently gotten into Photoblogs and there are a few good examples of favicons taken from some of them including In the Rain, East 3rd, and the pixelly A Photolog.
There's also been an interesting new development in the use of favicons recently in Favatars on several weblogs. Essentially, when you make a comment on a weblog and include your web address, then the site looks for your URL, grabs your favicon, and displays it with your post. It's an interesting way of adding further identification of the posters in a thread without putting any obstacles in the way. Pretty slick. I noticed today that Jon Hicks has implemented it in his comments (as someone kindly just pointed out, Jon is using gravatars not favatars).
Comments
David Schontzler - December 13, 2004 3:48 pm
Soren came out with this functionality nine months ago, but it doesn't look like he has it enabled anymore.
AkaXakA - December 13, 2004 7:14 pm
Ah, that Favatar feature is a nice alternative to Gravatars.
Note that Jon Hicks is using Gravatars (but small ones), not favicons. (Just check the gravatar behind my name and the favicon on my site if you need proof).
However, Favatars do need to mature a bit. Caching seems to be the biggest (potential) issue.
Nice Favicon's too, have you seen the one on gameover.com ? I like it :)
Jasmin - December 15, 2004 12:26 am
Thank you!
AkaXakA - December 15, 2004 7:48 am
Eh? How did you get that old gameover.com favicon? I thought I'd removed all references to it...
How come you didn't see the new one?
Daniel Burka - December 15, 2004 11:15 am
AkaXakA: I picked up the Gameover favicon a while ago, so that's likely why it's an older version. I've made it a point to save all of the icons as gifs locally (for consistency), hence some of the ones in the collection do not match the ones currently on the associated websites. That's fine with me as this is an archive of good icons, not a representation of live ones.
AkaXakA - December 16, 2004 12:32 pm
Daniel: Oh right...can't imagine how anyone would like the old icon enough to put in on such a list, but that's just probably the typical designer "I've just finished it, and I hate it already" trap :)
Oh, and I nominate your own icon for list 9 (if it hasn't already been on it).
pau - February 8, 2005 7:47 am
I think that the one with the white rabbit on the blue background is originally from peta.org. Peta stands for "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals". I could be wrong also...