[website] Smaller favicon.ico file
Our current favicon.ico file (on www.boost.org) is very large (22k), and includes several icons that are too large for the standard 16x16 size for a favicon. Looking at some directions for compressing them, I have created the attached icon which is only 318 bytes and looks almost as good as the current icon. It might be worthwhile to consider replacing the current favicon with this file. It is also available as https://svn.boost.org/htdocs/site/favicon.ico (the favicon for svn.boost.org, but your browser is unlikely to use the new icon if you've downloaded the old one); Dong Inn and I put that in last week as part of some other performance optimizations in Trac. Purging old favicons from Firefox's cache is difficult, though, so you may just want to download it directly and view it in an image viewer. -- Jeremiah Willcock
On 10 May 2010 16:35, Jeremiah Willcock <jewillco@osl.iu.edu> wrote:
Our current favicon.ico file (on www.boost.org) is very large (22k), and includes several icons that are too large for the standard 16x16 size for a favicon. Looking at some directions for compressing them, I have created the attached icon which is only 318 bytes and looks almost as good as the current icon. It might be worthwhile to consider replacing the current favicon with this file.
Sorry about the slow reply. FWIW the larger icons are used in windows if you save the link to the filesystem. In the past it looked like they might be used elsewhere but I don't think that ever happened so they're probably not worth it. There's certainly no point in the low colour versions nowadays. So I've changed the icon on the beta site, and will update live at some point. thanks, Daniel
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