It’s the fastest favicon generator of ‘em all.
Every site needs a favicon.ico, but generating them from big images can be tedious. Just drag your image in to InstantIco, and you’ll get a 16x16 favicon.ico out.
You’ll need a browser with that supports FileReader. Currently, Chrome and Firefox do, but Safari doesn’t.
*If you’re getting a “Sorry, File Could Not Be Found” error: It seems that FileReader fails at random under both Chrome and Firefox. If you get that message, you should try dragging your file in again. Believe me, I’m as frustrated as you are.
Pretty minimal: jQuery and some of the HTML5 Boilerplate. On the server, I use Express and the ImageMagick wrapper by rsms.
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remIt does what it says. | |||
nonkenI had issues with several pictures, otherwise it worked well. Since there are so many favicon generators I’d probably just use photoshop or something. Good job though | |||
chinacceleratorWell, it does what it says and kudos for that, right at the time I needed to create one! I had the error message straight away and reloaded once. I tried another file and same thing happened again, and worked again. The interface is a minimalistic which is great, but it’s a bit too much (or too little). I wasn’t sure what the ‘your site’ meant immediately, and the automatic resize of pictures is a bit brutal (got crush on height). Some more work to do but it’s a great start, useful and it works! | |||
This is pretty useful. I like the simplicity of the tool. It’s a shame the filereader calls are failing seemingly at random. I did drag the same file twice, and it did work on the second time. Have you reported this as a bug to the browser makers? | |||
Did work on chrome! | |||
Simple, but really useful and pretty cool. I like the touch of showing the favicon in a browser address bar to give a feeling of what it will look like. | |||
Tested it out on a bunch of images and the ones that went through just worked and looked great. Would’ve been great if we saw this before the nodeknockout code freeze…we for sure would’ve had a favicon! | |||
Very useful and great idea. I couldn’t get expected features like cropping working. The cursor randomly switching types between crosshairs, hand and pointer was very confusing. | |||
christkvDoes not work on chrome | |||
Had to retry half of the times until image got accepted. More advanced clipping would be nice. | |||
therazorbladeDoesn’t work (happy to try again if you resolve the issue – could not read file on both Chrome and FF). | |||
A simple service. Still missing any bling feature, like cropping the image by selection. | |||
Great tool. I would actually use that. | |||
Simple to use. Shame about the bug that that developer points out.
Didn’t realise there was a crop tool until I poked around the code, because it didn’t show up on the white image, and that I couldn’t actually crop downwards – only move the location of the crop (as in it wouldn’t resize).
Generally good, still needs some work though.