Hi Michael On 14-May-2020 18:50, Michael Lazar wrote: > I really appreciate that you brought up favicons. I've also been thinking > about how they might be a fun and useful way to give a bit of "personality" > to sites as they appear in bookmark lists, etc. > > The original implementation of favicons on the web was so simple and nice. > Just plop a favicon.ico file in your root of your directory and you're > done! Now on the modern web, it's gotten complicated with every browser > having their own conventions on what the optimized size/format should be. > So you end up needing to use a tool to generate 8 different file formats > and link to them to using various<meta> tags in the page header. > > I think utilizing unicode characters, specifically emojis, might be an > elegant solution to this problem. They're scalable to any resolution and > standard enough to provide a uniform experience across sites. A content > author wouldn't need to worry about their image being transparent or > looking like crap on higher resolutions, for example. And of course, they > would work on terminal clients too! > > My proposed convention would be something like this > > gemini://my-site.com/favicon.txt > > This resource should be optional. If it exists, it should contain a single > unicode character (the exact semantics of what a "character" is would need > to be ironed out). Clients may chose to display this character alongside > links or in the page title bar. I think that would be a nice start, perhaps with a colour hint to be considered by the client, but of course not everyone can map their identity onto a single unicode code point! I really like the Haiku small vector graphic format. It is a bazillion times simpler than SVG and makes for crisp icons and different resolutions https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/applications/icon-o-matic.html Regards - Luke
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