Last time I checked (~3 months ago) canvas rendered favicons lead to HUGE memory leaks in Chrome.
I love this effect, but I had to remove it from my app. If you were only using it on a page that is navigated away from, then this will work great, most likely.
I feel like this would be rather annoying and distracting. I could just imagine my 10+ tabs in Firefox having a pie chart or something blinking instead of a plain image.
It feels like were devolving to the old websites of flashy and blinking images trying to lure people in. Don't get me wrong though, it is neat! But... Where is that disable favicon extension now?
Already implemented it in my uploader, but after hearing reports of a memory leak in Chrome I may need to remove it again. Hopefully it gets fixed soon.
OMG. This literally will solve a UI issue that chizzl.com (my lil start-up that could) has been trying to solve for 2 months. Bless this lib and bless Ycomb!
It's not a pie chart but just a progress indicator? An actual pie chart could have an arbitrary amount of slices in arbitrary angles.
This might be useful for slow file uploads, but eventually animated favicons will be abused and subsequently disabled in later browser versions. See "window.status".
This is cool. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me in Safari 6.0 on OS X 10.8. The title updates but the favicon stays as the default GitHub icon: http://imgur.com/kIzXX
I am not sure about the Youtube since they have stopped buffering the whole video in one go. It just waits at the 30sec mark for you to cover the first 10sec and then jumps another 30sec, so on. Guess, its some bandwidth saving technique.
Well rephrased, everyone using Chrome and almost everyone using Firefox, since 15 and 9 are eons ago for those two. Pretty sure that's a decent percentage (40+ accord to StatCounter?)
Ack, the first image is shown, then the github favicon appears again and blinks at every update of the pie chart (probably showing the pie chart for a fraction of a second).
User-Agent: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; en) Presto/2.10.289 Version/12.00
I love this effect, but I had to remove it from my app. If you were only using it on a page that is navigated away from, then this will work great, most likely.