07.27.05
creating favicons
At wikipedia there is a very nice page explaining the origin (MS) and current standards (link tags with rel=”shortcut icon” or rel=”icon”), including the fact the ico format has now been registered by microsoft with IANA so it now has a valid MIME type.
The wikipedia links had some links of interest, but not what i wanted - a simple ico conversion program. Nothing fancy. Google - bingo! … and its a good one.
png2ico eh? by Matthias Benkmann (2002) hmm…
http://www.winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico/
I downloaded the “windows package” (aka zip file) that had the compiled program and a few docs. Didn’t read the notes… just gave it a burl.
c:\>temp\png2ico favicon.ico mynewicon.png
Works just like the box says. There are other web based icon programs out there, and GUI’s for this one I know, but I like this one just fine at the command line.
It’s a simple program, does one task, and does it well. Just what i wanted.