Favicon Collective breaks 500 favicons!
April 14th, 2008Woohoo! After my last post, and a few additional users, we now have over 500 unique favicons in the favicon collection. I think if we can push through 1000 favicons, we will have the largest favicon collection on the internet.
If you would like to help add to the collection, install the Firefox 3 add-on.
This project has been a good skill-set tester… as it has required me to hack in Javascript/XUL, Firefox 3 apis (devmo++), google app engine, python, and django. If you find any bugs while interacting with this sausage factory, please be sure to file a bug on my google code project.
April 14th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Maybe you should use the data: URI scheme to avoid hundreds of requests…
April 15th, 2008 at 12:49 am
“This Google App Engine application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later.” ;-)
Luckily, I did get a glance of the icons, before google decided to take a break. Great idea!
How about licensing issues? It’s not like a favicon is in public domain, and I think that a few icon authors might be offended that you’re uploading their work to your server and displaying it without consent. Currently, it’s probably still “fair use” (even though you’re not acknowledging the source of the icon), but once you start doing something interesting with them, people might notice.
April 15th, 2008 at 1:27 am
http://16×16.appspot.com/image/a2dfb4f163967def82f92553b6bbc242c and http://16×16.appspot.com/image/a2dfb4f163967def82f92553b6bbc242c appear to be identical.
I’m surprised that nobody’s contributed the Wikipedia favicon yet.
April 15th, 2008 at 4:03 am
fantastic ;)
April 15th, 2008 at 10:34 am
@neil, thanks! I disabled the extra one
April 16th, 2008 at 8:08 am
I think its kind of ironic that a favion site its self has no icon. Any chance that you could come up with one?
April 16th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Ryan, that’s on purpose! This site is about other peoples favicons, not my own. :)
April 16th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Ah but it would still be a nice thing - its strange having bookmarked a site dedicated to icons with none its self! Then again I guess I can just choose one of the many available now.
Looks to be over 2,000 now (2036 at the time of writing).