#icons

I’ve talked about imagemaps before, but the essence of them is that you define areas of an image that, when clicked, hyperlink to different places. The most-common way of doing these was always client-side imagemaps, where the HTML code itself contained all of the coordinates and, crucially, the resulting destinations. But that’s not what kind of imagemap this is.

Google's undocumented favicon to png convertor (via) Showing the favicon of a domain next to a link is a really nice trick, but it’s slightly tricky to achieve as IE won’t display a .ico file if you link to it from an img element, so you need to convert the images server-side. This undocumented Google API does that for you, meaning it’s much easier to add favicons as a feature to your site.

Google's undocumented favicon to png convertor (via) Showing the favicon of a domain next to a link is a really nice trick, but it’s slightly tricky to achieve as IE won’t display a .ico file if you link to it from an img element, so you need to convert the images server-side. This undocumented Google API does that for you, meaning it’s much easier to add favicons as a feature to your site.

I'm making something that uses Markdown, and there's currently no great universal symbol for identifying Markdown support. So I created one.

"Growing up in the Bowling Green neighborhood of Sacramento, I was taught how to read and mark houses with the Halloween Candy Code. For kids with an early curfew these codes were invaluable. Once we tagged a house, our peers could use our marks to reap the best full-size chocolate bars while avoiding Chex mix and dried apricots."

"sips -s format png Dictionary.icns --out ~/Desktop/Dictionary_icon.png "

"Doctype Icons (v. 2). A reworked reissue of my original Doctype set. A work in progress..."

"A pack of 19 10x10 pixel greyscale icons for use in web projects."

"Here are 113 10x10 greyscale icons in .gif format to fill up your stocking with - the next instalment of my mini icon collection, which has been steadily growing over the last year."

"This page maps the the Tango Icon Library to the Standard Icon Naming Specification to keep track of coverage."

"Clearbits is a small spinoff of the Bitcons icon set that allows for CSS-based coloring and framing."

Star Control avatars / icons