Re: PostgreSQL favicon.ico

Hi Greg,

I've had a favicon.ico on the techdocs site for several months now, so I
guess we now have two alternatives.

:-)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift


Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> Quick summary: I made a favicon.ico for PostgreSQL. Link below.
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> Many sites use a favicon.ico file, which is a small bitmap located in the
> root diretory for a website. It is very small and web browsers typically
> use it as the icon for the site: it may appear in the title bar, the
> task bar, or next to the list of bookmarks. (Konquerer, for example,
> uses all three locations, while Netscape uses none, so YMMV). Google has
> a colorful "G", MySQL has a simplified dolphin, freshmeat has a yellow
> "][", and so on.
> 
> I created one in GIMP for PostgreSQL, which was difficult given the
> limitation of a 16x16 pixel icon that still looks like an elephant. :)
> Zoomed up close it looks terrible, of course, but then so do all the other
> sites above. I've also managed to shrink it down to a mere 124 bytes. The
> fact that elephants are not very colorful helped in this. :)
> 
> Hopefully this can become a part of postgresql.org - why should other sites
> have all the fun? Rather than try an attach the itty-bitty image to this
> email, I've set it up for the following domain. Just visit the page and
> hopefully your browser will show it to you in some form:
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> http://elephant.gtsm.com/index.html
> 
> Greg Sabino Mullane  greg@turnstep.com
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