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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Hasty Treat - The Surprisingly Exciting World of Favicons

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about favicons. Favicons are a bit of mystery and something people don’t talk about that often. Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 03:48 - What are favicons? Requesting favicons by default /favicon.ico 07:38 - Sizing favicons 16x16 is OG - don’t do that now You can specify multiple sizes 09:41 - File formats .ico files .png favicons 13:40 - Animated favicons Canvas Base64 11:36 - SVG favicons 17:19 - Dark mode favicons 18:55 - App Coloring Isn’t there a new Safari version? Links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon https://caniuse.com/ https://keycode.info/ https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/icons https://fav.farm/ https://deno.land/ https://uses.tech/ Missive Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0

Monday Monday Monday open wide dev fans get ready to stuff your face with Javascript CSS

0:07.4

Node module barbecue tips get workflows break dancing soft skills web development the hastiest the

0:13.5

Carrazius the tastiest web development treats coming in hot. Here is West

0:19.3

Barakuda boss and Scott L. Toro Lungo

0:23.8

Tolinsky

0:26.7

Welcome to syntax in this Monday history treat. We're gonna be talking about the surprising like setting world of

0:35.2

Favocons or Fave icons whatever you'd like to pronounce it as these are the little little tiny little icon

0:42.0

That's up in the tap of your web browser that allows you to distinguish what site you're using when you're not focused on that perhaps you have

0:48.9

tons of tabs and all you could see are the Favocons either way

0:52.2

We have some really interesting little things to talk about here the Favocon is a bit of I don't want to say it's a

0:57.9

Miss a mystery, but it's a bit of a topic that people don't really spend any time talking about so I think it's a really interesting topic

1:05.6

My name is Scott Lenskema developer from Denver Colorado and with me is always is West Favocon master boss

1:13.1

For once more on the same page about to pronounce something people I say Fave icons. Oh, yeah, yeah, you can get out of here

1:20.6

Favocon is where I'm at. Yeah, Favocon is where I'm at as well. It's like a Fava bean

1:26.2

That's where it comes from actually. It was initially a little bean all the Favocon. It was a Java-based

1:33.5

website and

1:35.0

They put a Fava bean up in the top. Oh, you're not riffing. I think you're making a joke on this. No, no, that's that's actually is a truthful

1:42.6

No, that's where I came from looking up on Wikipedia. I thought you were pulling my leg there

1:46.5

I was I was like blowing you off because I thought you were joking. No, look up look up Favocon

1:52.5

Favocon on Wikipedia

1:56.1

1997

1:57.8

Jared Smith was the creator of the Favocon being Favocon when he

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