Yellow is the New Blog

A couple of disturbing observations:

First, in a 2006 post from Julian about animated favicons, the little animated banana dances at the exact same tempo as the song "Your Star" by the All-American Rejects. Try it... it's mesmerizing.

But secondly, to explain the title of this post, I noticed an odd behavior related to image resources in the Notes client: GIF support is incomplete. ICO files are actually stored in the same format as GIF, just with a different extension. So another approach to creating animated favicons is to simply rename an animated GIF to .ICO. That's how Dean Edwards created a favicon that periodically blinks. Theoretically, then, we should be able to download any site's favicon, rename it to .GIF, import it as a file resource, and then display it in the Notes client. No such luck.

Since real browsers (read: Firefox, Safari, and Opera... of course, as always, IE fails) don't distinguish between the two formats and simply trust the server-supplied MIME type, navigate to the same image resource via a URL and the image displays as expected. But try to reference the same image resource anywhere in the Notes client (or even just preview it in the image resource list), and you get nothin' but gray.

Sorry, Bruce, I tried...