Why isn't the favico.ico icon transparent?

Kinda looks fugly in Firefox 3 when you have the white against the silver background in Windows Vista’s Firefox theme.

Which favicon are you talking about?

I think he means the favico on modxcms.com and this forum

The one in the forum looks good to me on FF3 OSx.

Quote from: dev_cw at Sep 22, 2008, 07:28 AM

The one in the forum looks good to me on FF3 OSx.

Clear your browser cache. There’s a new favicon.

That’s the old one.

Here’s the new one...

OK, got the new one and I see what you mean.

I think by definition favicon’s have to be 8-bit, so they don’t support transparent backgrounds. I hope I’m wrong and please feel free to correct me on that one; I’ll happily update it.

Ryan, I think you can use index transparancy in 8-bit. I think you run into issues with alpha. I think some of the favicon generators will do this automatically for you.

My favicon for smashingred.com has transparency. I think I used one of the online favicon generators.

That’s going to get blocky/halo’d with the shadow under the box-X... will revisit later.