Defender of the Favicon (2008)(p01.org)

73 pointsby pplonski867 tahun yang lalu24 comments

Defender of the Favicon (2008)

http://www.p01.org/defender_of_the_favicon/

26 comments

LinuxBender7 tahun yang lalu

Somewhat off-topic: Can you still serve up 30GB favicons? Some friends and I used to prank each other with large favicon files. It just so happened that mobile browsers would keep downloading massive favicon files in the background even if you left the page. The unintended effect was a rather large mobile roaming bill for data-overage for one of our friends, which we paid.

fredley7 tahun yang lalu

Why stop at 30GB? IIRC with gif encoding you can just keep sending frames forever, something like https://github.com/jbochi/gifstreaming

LinuxBender7 tahun yang lalu

Certainly! :-) I was using a simple nginx+haproxy server and static files for simplicity. I am maybe a bit lazy.

binrec7 tahun yang lalu

I couldn't figure out how to play this, so I tried making Snake in the favicon: https://defseg.io/snavicon

The framerate isn't great - is drawing to the favicon inherently slow, or can it be improved? - but it's at least somewhat playable.

thinkingemote7 tahun yang lalu

Over ten years old, works fine in Firefox

sjroot7 tahun yang lalu

Doesn’t work on iOS! Literally unplayable.

Jokes aside this is pretty neat. I feel like the concept of the favicon should be re-evaluated to consider the common use cases of today.

Theodores7 tahun yang lalu

You are right on your second point. I think that there needs to be a 'favimage' that works for everything including the original use case plus those personal web app icons, start menu tiles, Google search results, twitter cards, Facebook open graph images and other social media applications. If this new format was responsive SVG with image embeds then it should work fine on the many different canvas sizes.

chronial7 tahun yang lalu

SVG is not very well suited for favicons. At that size, you often want to hand-tune the single pixels.

2038AD7 tahun yang lalu

The format Haiku uses for its icons might be apt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_Vector_Icon_Format

waddlesplash7 tahun yang lalu

Yep, it has LOD calculation features, so you can hide and show certain elements at smaller sizes so it always scales well.

ygra7 tahun yang lalu

Shouldn't media queries along with shape-rendering be able to do that?

saltyshake7 tahun yang lalu

Google Search results would make it easier for scammers.

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gerardes7 tahun yang lalu

I think it's cool. Useless, but cool :)

leowoo917 tahun yang lalu

Works on Firefox

AnaniasAnanas7 tahun yang lalu

Not for me on 65.0.1 sadly. Plus my disk starts spinning like crazy when I open it for some reason.

sigspec7 tahun yang lalu

Works great for me on 65.0.1.

dosbre7 tahun yang lalu

Very nice. It works quite well, despite the small size of favicon or maybe I just need new glasses.

realPubkey7 tahun yang lalu

Unplayable. Left and Right do not move as expected.

jrochkind17 tahun yang lalu

for me, left and right seem oddly reversed. I don't know what would make that happen! Or maybe I just don't understand the game.

chronial7 tahun yang lalu

You need to look at the ground. Right moves your ship to the right, but also shifts the camera to the right, so you can see where you're going. That results in the ship actually moving to the left side of the frame.

jrochkind17 tahun yang lalu

Aha! Looking at the ground is difficult in 16 pixels, but i get it.

SmellyGeekBoy7 tahun yang lalu

There are people who haven't played Defender?

Damn, I'm old.

jrochkind17 tahun yang lalu

I might be older than you, just wasn't much of a gamer!

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dvfjsdhgfv7 tahun yang lalu

Unplayable, but a neat proof of concept.