With a favicon, are there any drawbacks in using a 16-color palette of different shades of the same color? (Example: the Opera favicon, which has a number of shades of red.) Can it cause problems on older systems?
smokeyb
9:14 pm on Jun 30, 2004 (gmt 0)
I don't think that you get to choose which 16 colours to use, they are the 16 basic ones. The Opera "O" is not a favicon but a company logo, if you were to convert this to a favicon, it would be red and white and maybe a pixel a lighter red.
bhartzer
9:28 pm on Jun 30, 2004 (gmt 0)
I usually use an icon creator program/app to import and convert graphics to icon files.
directrix
9:41 pm on Jun 30, 2004 (gmt 0)
smokeyb, the Opera "O" is a favicon as well as being the company logo. Download it and check it out in a graphics program!
bhartzer, I'm doing the same, using png2ico. My concern, though, is that using a non-standard palette, even one of 16 colors, may cause problems on older systems.
smokeyb
2:07 pm on Jul 1, 2004 (gmt 0)
I presumed that favicons used the 4bit palette?
smokeyb
2:12 pm on Jul 1, 2004 (gmt 0)
Oh and, IE does not support transparency for Favicons, unlike normal Icons.
