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What you think of it?
[en.wikipedia.org...]
(seems the symbol isn't supported in here)
I like the transparency nature of it. And it is an ico file type.... only Firefox supports the transparency and animated ones so far that I know of. But I have been seeing more and more animated ones.
[edited by: Demaestro at 6:42 pm (utc) on June 4, 2008]
... we wanted to develop a set of icons that would scale better to some new platforms like the iPhone and other mobile devices. So the new favicon is one of those, but we've also developed a group of logo-based icons that all hang together as a unified set.
Syzygy
For tabbed browsing I can't live without them. I frequently have 12 or more tabs open at any given time and the favicon is the best way for me to see at a glance what site is on what tab.
Day 12... and it has started to grow on me. I think because of how I use it for tabbed browsing it has more to do with familiarity then aesthetics.
[edited by: Demaestro at 11:00 pm (utc) on June 11, 2008]
only Firefox supports the transparency and animated ones so far that I know of.
I beg to differ - transparnecy is working just fine in IE7.
I can see how favicons would be better than a screenshot of the page, as done in the iPhone.
Call me crazy but the Google favico looks the same as always to me. Its the capital G letter from the beginning of the logo. Am I missing something?
Yes, or at least your browser is - Google switched to a blue lower-case "g". Check out Google's official blog post [googleblog.blogspot.com].
...and by the way, welcome to the forums, TyWebb!
it aint gonna set the world alight... and i see some clumsy antialiasing....
[edited by: tedster at 12:53 pm (utc) on June 12, 2008]
[edit reason] add clickable link [/edit]
Getty Images [gettyimages.com]
Syzygy
I've been pretty tuned into this branding exercise of the last couple years. It really accelerated when Lincoln abruptly switch from naming their cars words, to naming them initials. The theory is that they want people to refer to "driving a Lincoln" and not driving a "Zephyr " or "Navigator". Using initials like (mks, mkx, mkz) is like Mercedes and BMW that use numbers and letters for cars instead of names. Who says, "Ya, I have a 320i" - they don't - they say, "I drive a BMW". That way, all the "feel goods" go to the brand and not some word like "town car".
Google, does not want to be known as G, they want to be known as "Google". If you notice - especially around here - we have started just referring to them as "G" for about a year. It devalues the Google brand.
A lower case squiggly g is less of an insinuation or evoking of G as a single letter. (more brand-able)
