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 They're gone. I just updated my favicon list for 2018 and here's the latest incarnation of crap we have to keep track of:
<head>
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<!-- don't use a generic generator for images, we're artists after all -->
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico?v=1.0" /><!-- old way 16x16, 32x32, 48x48 -->
<link rel="icon" sizes="128x128" href="/favicon.png"><!-- Android Normal Resolution -->
<link rel="icon" sizes="192x192" href="/favicon-hd.png"><!-- Android High Resolution -->
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="57x57" href="/touch-icon-iphone.png"><!-- iPhone 1-3GS -->
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="76x76" href="/touch-icon-ipad.png"><!-- iPad and iPad mini -->
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="120x120" href="/touch-icon-iphone-retina.png"><!-- iPhone 4-8 -->
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="152x152" href="/touch-icon-ipad-retina.png"><!-- iPad and iPad mini 2nd gen -->
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="167x167" href="/touch-icon-ipad-pro.png"><!-- iPad Pro -->
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" href="/touch-icon-iphone-6-plus.png"><!-- iPhone X, 6-8 Plus -->
...
</head> And yeah I comment my HTML. It gets stripped out anyway. Don't judge.
Jeremy Falcon
modified 17-Dec-17 21:48pm.
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Speaking of favicons, I noticed a few days ago after the 'feature update' for Winten that my IE tabs no longer show an icon...even for CP.  I've been too busy to try and fix it...maybe this week. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Oh yeah - that kills me.
Seriously: how hard is it just to have us produce a 256 x 256 icon for use across all devices. Resizing images is kinda a solved problem.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Totally, I mean I get it. 8k displays and 16x16 won't exactly work. But yeah, 152x152 isn't even a power of two. WTF apple. Like we if did a PoT 256x256 like you said, we could just scale the sucker anywhere from 32 to 512 and have it look good. But no, we have 152. 
Jeremy Falcon
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It's so good to hear other people complain about this.
truly inspiring.
I was grumbling and mumbling to myself as I was generating images for the iOS app I released into the apple store.
I couldn't believe all of the sizes I had to produce : one was 167 x 167 and they call it 83.5 X 2X I have no idea what that means. I ended up having to create 16 different sizes of icons for the app store. Loads of fun. 
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Yeah - 83.5pt x 2X is a bit silly.
Apple's guidelines[^] ask for a 1024 x 1024. Surely they can just scale that bad-boy and we can be done, no? I'm sure phone users on a slow EDGE connection wouldn't mind downloading half a Mb of image just so their 16x16 icon in the browser tab looks good.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It's like the browser wars are back. And history repeats itself.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: 512
Jeremy Falcon wrote: But no, we have 152.
I think you hit on something there. Someone with typing dyslexia meant to key in 512 but accidentally typed 152, and somehow it got put into production without anybody noticing, now it's too hard to change. 
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I can actually see something like that happening. It's far to frequent of an occurance to ignore. Recently I ordered new widows for the front of my house. The actual window heights are 53.5 inches tall but the windows they ordered where 35.5 inches. Talk about a real facepalm.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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The funny part man, is that's probably exactly what happened. But nobody wanted to be the one to admit it.
Jeremy Falcon
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Hey I'm curious. Do you still even bother with IE9 support? I'm writing a new web app, and I'm totally dropping it. In fact, if I detect a user is using IE9 or less I drop them with this bad boy to blank out the entire screen so they can't do anything at all...
body, body * {
background: none !important;
direction: ltr !important;
display: none !important;
font-size: 0 !important;
height: 0 !important;
line-height: -9999 !important;
margin: 0 !important;
padding: 0 !important;
position: static !important;
text-indent: -9999em !important;
width: 0 !important;
white-space: normal !important;
}...before showing them a message saying to freaking upgrade already. Curious to know your thoughts.
Jeremy Falcon
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We've just moved to ignoring anything below IE 11 (We used to support down to IE7, and even a few years ago down to IE4). The site still works on older IEs, but it's frankly a PITA to test on older IE installs, and it's less than a fraction of a percent of our users.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Cool, thanks for the info. Only reason I bother when IE10 even is for all the people treating Win7 like the next WinXP and never upgrading to 11 or Edge as well, for more of a non-technical audience.
Yay... web dev. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Given that Microsoft have officially ended support for IE 7 to 10[^] we don't see any point in spending resources on IE 10.
If you're running IE 10 you shouldn't be browsing the internet. It's simply not safe.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Good to know that. Thanks man. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Their whole take is - "no, you resize it". 
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Don't judge.
I wasn't, until you said that.
Now prepare thyself for 'tis judgment day!
MUWHAHAHAHA!!!
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Check my comments.
Jeremy Falcon
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I will say this, that generator looks better than the one I looked at the end other day. I may check it out later on. Just the nerd in me wants to see the final images, so I tend not to automatically generate stuff willy-willy like that. But I shall check it out more so a bit later on.
Jeremy Falcon
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Not surprising. I was more than a little mortified when I first found out that XP is the de facto OS for ICS...
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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So I've been using SQL 2008 Developer edition for many moons and today I thought, time to upgrade to SQL 2012, already had it installed.
2/3 of a day wasted on their GD CodeFirst BS and how to disable it. Still ain't out of the woods, works on my machine but production?
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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