heptat's comments

On: Show HN: AllTheFavIcons.com - Weekend Project inspired by HN

[heptat]

Didn't notice any bugs, but haven't tested for bugs. Used it and it works great - favicon.ico is much small than that other thing I used in http://nashape.com/blog/2012/09/12/big-favicons/. Great work! (especially because you did it in PHP which, after 10 years, I don't think I can face again...)

On: Favicons in the retina age

[heptat]

Good pick up, fixed that error now. Thanks for the link too!

On: Favicons in the retina age

[heptat]

Microsoft suggests 24x24: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc849094(VS.85).aspx...

[cremno → heptat]

This site is about IE8. This one is about IE9 on Win7: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/gg491740%28v=vs.8...

The optimal sizes are the same as the author's but 24x24 px. is missing in the recommended size list.

The site links to a blog entry about Pinned Sites in Win8. You can re-use the 144x144 px. PNG for a pinned site.

On: Favicons in the retina age

[heptat]

Out of interest, what language will you write it in?

On: Favicons in the retina age

[heptat]

Sorry about that – the point of the article definitely wasn't to exclude non-Retina users, it was just to document what I was encountering when I came to creating a favicon for the site.

[WayneDB → heptat]

As if "the retina age" were an actual thing. How many people have them now?

[Karunamon → WayneDB]

You don't think screen resolutions will continue to increase? I give it a couple of years, maybe less, before the "retina" resolution is standard hardware.

[IsTom → Karunamon]

I don't want to think what beastly GPU I will have to buy to run next crisis on native resolution on ~150 dpi 21" monitor.

[ricardobeat → IsTom]

That's most likely going to be a >200dpi screen, where you can simply use 2x upscaling for better performance (with no visual degradation compared to current monitors).

[michaeltwofish → WayneDB]

That was my submission, not the author's words.