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Google undocumented API - Convert favicons to pngs automatically. Great for links.

Google's undocumented favicon to png convertor (via) Showing the favicon of a domain next to a link is a really nice trick, but it’s slightly tricky to achieve as IE won’t display a .ico file if you link to it from an img element, so you need to convert the images server-side. This undocumented Google API does that for you, meaning it’s much easier to add favicons as a feature to your site.

This is a smart little handy tool for building links that are more interesting to click on than just the link text. May use this soon.

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Jul 13, 2009
brett gibson said...
That's awesome. I totally bought favpngs.com and wrote a mongrel handler to do this a few years ago and then never deployed it.

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