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New Cocoa app idea: favicon converter for Mac OS X
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I was recently frustrated to find that there was no Mac OS X app that could make favicon.ico files that would display correctly in a browser (you know, the favourites icons that appear in your URL bars and tabs in Chimera, Mozilla etc).
There ARE apps which save in .ico format (eg. Iconographer), but I was not able to get a working favicon.ico file that would display properly, preserving transparency, in the browser.
Believe me: I tried everything: Photoshop, GraphicConverter, Iconographer etc. No amount of saving, opening, importing, exporting, copying or pasting could produce the result I wanted.
Eventually I had to fire up VirtualPC and use an app inside that which did a fine job of converting some transparent gifs into a favicon file for me. It worked.
So I am wanting to develop (or see developed) a small Cocoa app with just one purpose: making working favicon files.
I am thinking of a simple drag and drop interface. Nothing fancy. Just clean and smooth and gets the job done!
If anyone wants to work on this with me, reply to this thread. Also any feedback or ideas too would be good.
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Are there specs available for the favicon.ico format? I might be interested in the idea.
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The "favicon.ico" format is just a Windows Icon with a single 16x16 incon in it. Look up the ICO format for details on it. It is basically a multipage bitmap (BMP).
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Originally posted by WJMoore:
The "favicon.ico" format is just a Windows Icon with a single 16x16 incon in it. Look up the ICO format for details on it. It is basically a multipage bitmap (BMP).
Wesley
Yes and it's frustrating that such a simple format should be so difficult to produce easily on the Mac. There ARE tools that do it, but getting them to work easily, and with support for transparency, is a real pain...
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Originally posted by eno:
Yes and it's frustrating that such a simple format should be so difficult to produce easily on the Mac. There ARE tools that do it, but getting them to work easily, and with support for transparency, is a real pain...
It doesn't have to be a Windows Icon file. PNG, JPEG, GIF or others will do, but you'll have to remember to specify the fileformat in the HTML:
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<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.png" type="image/png">
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IIRC, if you want it to work in Windows IE, it has to be a Windows icon. I could be wrong, though.
Also, all the favicons I've made with Iconographer have worked perfectly. Or at least, I've not heard anything to the contrary from anyone...
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