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Am I going crazy or haven't I used websites that update the favicon to indicate things like new notifications?

Here's a 16x16 pixel game of Defender implemented by animating the favicon: http://www.p01.org/defender_of_the_favicon/



Github does this for pull request status, it’s really great


Looking around for more, https://travis-ci.org/ updates it with build succeeded | failed | in-progress.

The few websites I first checked, like Facebook, I must've misremembered. But it's definitely still out there in the wild.


Gitlab CI also updates the favicon


Shameless plug for a tiny project I did a while back that does exactly this: http://nicolasbize.com/faviconx/




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