This is not really an important suggestion, but I think it might be cool if the forum had a “favicon”. So I’d like to know whether other people would consider that a good idea. I’m talking about the little icon that appears next to a web site’s name in the browser bookmarks.
The reason for my proposal is that I often check the forum’s RSS feed via the Firefox bookmarks toolbar (below the navigation & URL bar). Clicking on the button in the bookmarks toolbar opens a dropdown list with the titles of the most recent posts. Next to the titles, Firefox displays the default RSS bookmark icon. Now, if the forum had a favicon, then that favicon would be shown there for those posts which I would already have visited with the browser. For unvisited posts, there’d be the browser’s default icon. So I could see at a glance whether there were new posts.
Obviously, we’d also need an appropriate icon. I played around a bit on favicon.cc and made three [edit: five] rather… well, let’s say minimalist designs. (See below.) There’s also the possibility of converting an image to an icon.
So, what do you think about this? And most importantly, what does Merk think?
My experience with those things it that they sometimes take days to filter into one’s browser. The fedex icon, for example, tends to come and go in my browser like a summer guest.
I can confirm this works in Firefox under win7. I dl’d the icon from the link above and after restarting my browser, the favicon was automagically associated with the site in the url box, bookmarks list, and tab headings. This is despite the fact that I definitely don’t know what I’m doing and didn’t even know what a favicon was (or more precisely, that it was called that).
Thanks y’all!
I downloaded the icon, and then I dragged it to the Firefox bookmark toolbar next to IntFiction, just trying anything for it to work. I have no idea how or why, but work it did, it’s showing up and it’s spiffy!