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InstantIco
InstantIco
by CoffeeScript is for Closures
It’s the fastest favicon generator of ‘em all.
Judging Instructions
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.
Who
TrevorBurnham — Cambridge, MA
How
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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remjudgewhereisciao
contestantIt does what it says.
nonkenjudgeI 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
chinacceleratorjudgeWell, 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!
Coreh
contestantThis 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?
sly010
contestantDid work on chrome!
robhawkesjudgeSimple, 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.
bundy
contestantTested 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!
mperham
judgeVery 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.
christkvjudgeDoes not work on chrome
thammi
contestantHad to retry half of the times until image got accepted. More advanced clipping would be nice.
therazorbladejudgeDoesn’t work (happy to try again if you resolve the issue – could not read file on both Chrome and FF).
astro
contestantA simple service. Still missing any bling feature, like cropping the image by selection.
kreichgauer
contestantGreat tool. I would actually use that.
phillyqueso
contestant
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.