Hacker News with Generative AI: Favicons

The importance of favicons in website OSINT research (osintme.com)
Favicons on websites are graphic elements that show up in the form of a small icon – be it in a browser tab panel next to the website’s name, or in bookmarked links to websites.

Website OSINT, Favicons, Security, Web Design

85 points by osintme 31 days ago | 24 comments

Emoji as a Favicon Using SVG (2022) (css-tricks.com)
Lea Verou had a dang genius idea to use an emoji as a favicon. The idea only recently possible as browsers have started supporting SVG for favicons. Chuck an emoji inside an SVG <text> element and use that as the favicon.

Web Development, Favicons, SVG, Emoji

103 points by andrei-akopian 135 days ago | 24 comments