Dynamic favicons

[Xavier Verges]

I just learned that favicons can be changed dynamically (Opera and
Firefox)
http://softwareas.com/dynamic-favicons

I know, I should already have known about it...
http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/a/c/ach12/tiddlywiki/extensions.htm

Given that both Opera and Firefos support data: urls
http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/cgi/data/data
using favicons could lead to some interesting uses (dirty/saved,
tiddlyspot'ed/local, read-only/read-write, reminder...)

Sigh! How do I miss having some hacking time... :-(

-Xv

[Jeremy Ruston]

Funnily enough, that favicon article is by a very clever chap named
Michael Mahemoff who is a colleague here at BT.

Cheers

Jeremy

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Jeremy Ruston
http://www.osmosoft.com/

[FND]

> I just learned that favicons can be changed dynamically

Here's a very quick proof of concept:
http://fnd.lewcid.org/svn/TiddlyWiki/plugins/DynamicFavIconPlugin.js

Are we certain that this only works in Opera and Mozilla-based browsers?
(Not sure which browsers support Base64-encoded data streams... )

-- F.