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Re:Inventing Favicon.ico by talideon on Monday March 30, 2015 @08:36AM (#9289048)
The downside of .ico files is that the format doesn't support compression, so those files can get quite big.
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Re:Inventing Favicon.ico by cornstalks on Monday March 30, 2015 @09:35AM (#9289358)
Yes they do. You can put PNG encoded images into an ICO format container.
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Re:Inventing Favicon.ico by talideon on Monday March 30, 2015 @01:06PM (#9290880)
Only as of Windows Vista, and how well supported are ICO-wrapped-PNGs in browsers?
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Re:Inventing Favicon.ico by cben on Friday April 03, 2015 @08:12AM (#9315416)
Does it matter much given HTTP compression?
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