Animated favicon?

[budafist]

Is there any reason why this wouldn't work on a normal website?

When I view gifs (http://www.kiyoi.co.jp/Cgi-bin/yybbs/img/panda.gif), they pop up automatically in my address bar and also in my tabbed browsing as animation. Using Firefox. Do they animate for you?

[doctorfoz]

but then I'm also using firefox

[morea]

they animate in the browser window for me, but I get nothing in the address bar. (using Mathon)

[Mynock]

Favicons are NOT gifs they are icons so you can't animate them.

[Annie Social]

Working for me in Firefox, but not in Safari or IE.

[Exodus]

Works... I'm on FF 2.0

[Red Kittie Kat]

All I see is an animated panda gif :confused: Nothing came up as a favicon in the browser.

[balou]

I see the Panda waving it's arms in the address bar. Mac - Firefox 1.5

[Jackimalyn]

can a .icn image be animated?

[Mynock]

can a .icn image be animated?No.

[Jackimalyn]

well there ya go then.

[budafist]

Ok, then end of the discussion...

Can a gif be used in place of a .ico?

[urstwile]

They animate for me in Firefox in both the address bar and browser window. However, they only animate in the browser window using Safari.

Cute panda, by the way. :)

[urstwile]

Found this link about animated favicons. (http://myvogonpoetry.com/wp/2005/10/10/animated-favicons/)Apparently works only in Firefox.

[budafist]

Thanks for the link Urst :)

[Drazan]

Javascript

http://ajaxify.com/run/favicon/animate/

also for the animated title bar
http://www.codelifter.com/main/javascript/titlebarclock1.html

and

http://codebelly.com/javascript/titlebarticker.html

=)
Jade << photo associative memory - I never forget a reference.

[EC]

Found this link about animated favicons. (http://myvogonpoetry.com/wp/2005/10/10/animated-favicons/)Apparently works only in Firefox.

They're calling it Transcendent Design: the notion that designers should serve up cool stuff for cool people that use cool browsers. And be ok if the mentalists using Internet Explorer 6 have a lesser experience. Because that is what they deserve.

Animate the favicon I say! :D

[budafist]

LOL cool shit for cool browswers. Now that's a thought.

Maybe we'll have secret messages soon visable only to people with cool browsers? Like some kind of secret club?


p.s. thanks for all the links Drazan.