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I would like FD to implement the use of bitmaps (and various others) for favicons instead of only .ico files. Many of my feeds use favicons that are .bmp instead of .ico,.
Doug Adams
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| Posted 4/3/2008 4:10:46 AM |
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| Hi Doug, Other than the FireFoxFacts feed you mentioned in the other thread, what feeds do you know of that use BMP favicons? Thanks,
Nick Bradbury
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| Posted 4/3/2008 11:51:23 AM |
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Ok,
The following do not show icons in FD but I have verified that the sites do in fact have favicons
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/
http://www.bestweekever.tv/
http://perezhilton.com/
http://www.nudography.com/ (NSFW)
http://www.maximumpc.com/
http://www.filmdrunk.com/
http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/
http://mozillalinks.org/wp
http://www.thestasis.com
http://comicrack.cyolito.com
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/
http://dailyapps.net
http://www.twistermc.com/blog
http://www.makeuseof.com
http://www.newspond.com/
http://www.webhostingshow.com
http://rssmeme.com/
http://codefisher.org/news/
Doug Adams
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| Posted 4/3/2008 4:03:52 PM |
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| Thanks for taking the time to do that, Doug! I tested with several of these sites, and although the favicon shows for one of them (microsoft-watch.com), it doesn't display for the others. It doesn't appear that BMPs are the real problem, though. The perezhilton.com favicon is a BMP, but others are actually valid icons whose color depth is 32bit. That should be fine, but the Windows API has some unfortunate limitations when it comes to loading 32bit icons. For example, if you navigate to codefisher.org in IE7, the 32bit favicon shows up empty on the browser tab. And if you download http://codefisher.org/favicon.ico and try to open it in Microsoft Visual Studio, you'll get a warning about it not supporting 32 bit color images. Long story short: I don't think there's much I can do here, other than hope that these sites include icons of a lower color depth in their favicons.
Nick Bradbury
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