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How do you resolve favicons? Browsers are very resilient at finding favicons. Websites can use meta refreshes, variants on <link rel="..."> tags, domain.com/favicon.{ico,png}, gzipped images, and inserting icon elements with javascript. You could also use parent domains if you don't have a favicon for a subdomain.

Writing your own favicon-getter is by contrast... kind of annoying.



It's using http://getfavicon.appspot.com/. I assume (by the names of the creators) that it wasn't created specifically for this.

It seems when the URL of a post has a hash at the end, the default icon query string isn't used.

http://i.imgur.com/pBs2T.png


FWIW, you can use google's favicon "service". It isn't official, but as long as you don't hit it too hard, I doubt they mind terribly:

http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=techcrunch.com

EDIT: I should point out that the accuracy is poor compared to most browsers.




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