Philip Oakley <philipoak...@iee.org> wrote: > Eric, > > Would it be possible for the Public-Inbox to provide a simple > Favicon(*), either for the whole site, or in someway for each > in-box?
For people running the PSGI themselves, yes, it should 404 so Plack::App::Cascade (or similar) may be used to fallback to serving as a static file. On my server, I have an empty file in favicon.ico so it is served as a 200 (using Plack::App::File or similar). This reduces HTTP requests since favicon-requesting clients tend to try repeatedly on 404s but not 200s. > I've added the git public-inbox to my firefox bookmarks as "GitPI" > (neat eh.), but all I get for the Icon part is a dull grey world. A > bit of colour would be nice. I'm afraid having any sort of icon for public-inbox itself would be a bad representation of the project itself which strives to be graphics-free and discourage the use of graphics (especially for branding/marketing). It seems every image rendering library has been affected by nasty security bugs in recent years and I'm trying to get users to reduce their attack surface (and save bandwidth!) by using non-graphical browsers. Fwiw, my slow response has been the result of having poor connectivity the past few days. > -- > Philip > > (*) I didn't even know what they were called until I searched to see > if I could customise the Icon. The Mozilla help pages tells me 'no', > it comes from the source... > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1097942 Ideally, you could patch/hack your browser easily. I will do my best to make the public-inbox code easy-to-hack/customize/run, at least. I'm extremely picky about UI; mainly, it's _user_ interface, and should be decided for and by a particular user, not some UI developer. I've managed without icons for years. As somebody with bad eyesight and hearing, I find touch + muscle memory (keystrokes) the best UI.
