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BB Favicon.
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 12:33 am
by Fatleaf
When I open a tab on most websites they have a small logo of the site in the tab section next to their name. It would be cool if the BB had a logo pic also.
How problematic would that be?
EDIT: Changed subject title to accurately reflect the subject.
Re: Tab Picture.
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 12:52 am
by Cody
Curious that... oolite.org has a logo, and I'm sure the wiki used to have (and possibly the forum too).
Re: Tab Picture.
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 4:22 am
by Wolfwood
One of the easiest things to do - if you have access to the actual folder on the server where the forum is hosted.
Re: Tab Picture.
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 6:15 am
by Diziet Sma
Cody wrote:Curious that... oolite.org has a logo
As does the nightly-build server..
And I agree withWolfwood..
very simple to do.
Re: Tab Picture.
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 8:17 am
by Smivs
It's called a 'favicon'. and if named as favicon.ico and placed in a 'folder called 'icons' within in the 'images' folder of the website it will be automatically displayed by most browsers.
At least that's how my Psy Corps logo appears on
Smivsonline.
The prefered method to ensure it shows though is to add a snippet of code to the <head> section of the HTML of the page.
Re: Tab Picture.
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 11:40 am
by JazHaz
It also works from the root directory of the site.
Re: Tab Picture.
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 5:56 pm
by xzanfr
Fatleaf wrote:When I open a tab on most websites they have a small logo of the site in the tab section next to their name. It would be cool if the BB had a logo pic also.
How problematic would that be?
I think a favicon for both the forum and the wiki would be an excellent idea. I like to have a quick launch bar along the top of the browser and currently the forum and the wiki are the only sites without an icon - It's no biggie but it would be a nice little touch
If no one can think of anything then it may be a fun idea to have a competition to design one!
Re: Tab Picture.
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 9:00 pm
by Eric Walch
For consistency, I would use the same as here:
www.oolite.org
Re: Tab Picture.
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 9:16 pm
by Fatleaf
That is what I was thinking with the Oolite logo.
What is the chance of this being implemented?
Re: Tab Picture.
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 9:26 pm
by Commander McLane
Fatleaf wrote:What is the chance of this being implemented?
Well, I guess you only need to convince Giles. I have no idea, though, how interested he would be.
Re: Tab Picture.
Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 3:03 pm
by Fatleaf
Commander McLane wrote:Well, I guess you only need to convince Giles. I have no idea, though, how interested he would be.
<Ponders about the most effective way to summon the presence of 'The Giles'>
But it would be nice to see the Oolite logo in my tab bar.
Re: Tab Picture.
Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 4:08 pm
by Commander McLane
Fatleaf wrote:Commander McLane wrote:<Ponders about the most effective way to summon the presence of 'The Giles'>
A simple
PM would do, methinks.
Re: Tab Picture.
Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 4:19 pm
by Fatleaf
Yeah, that was the first thing I thought of. I wanted to see if the idea was going to get a bit of support first.
Re: Tab Picture.
Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 3:57 am
by Diziet Sma
Fatleaf wrote:I wanted to see if the idea was going to get a bit of support first.
It certainly has mine.. it's rather unusual for a website to not have a favicon these days.
Re: Tab Picture.
Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 7:36 am
by Eric Walch
Apparently there are old- and new-style flavicons. The old style version is apparenly no longer supported by the Safari browser:
Favicon is not appearing in Safari:
If you have placed a favicon (the icon you see in the address bar and bookmarks) on your site and you can see it fine in Firefox but not Safari then it is likely that the icon file you are using is only 4bit (16 colors).
Open the favicon.ico file in an appropriate application, such as Graphics Converter, and resave it as an 8bit (256 color) file and re-upload to your site.
They say that is are small files, but my flavicon cache has grown to over 11 MB by now. (Cache is used to show the icons on bookmarks etc)