FavIconX: make progress bars out of favicons
FavIconX: make progress bars out of favicons launched on October 16, 2014 with 13 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.
In plain words
FavIconX is a lightweight JavaScript library that transforms website favicons into animated progress bars. Written in vanilla JavaScript at just 7kb with no dependencies, it works across Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. Developers can implement it by adding a single script tag to their page, after which the FavIconX object becomes immediately available for use. The library includes an interactive editor for testing and experimenting with different progress bar designs directly in the browser.
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From the sources
Use the editors on the right to play around with the library. View the results in the current browser tab. FavIconX is written in vanilla javascript (7kb) and does not require any external library to work. Download the latest version here Place the file faviconx-min.js in your assets folder. Add <script type="text/javascript" src="lib/faviconx-min.js"></script> to your page. Browser support: Chrome 16+, Firefox 8+, Opera 11+. (Others only update their titles) As soon as the script is loaded in the page, the object FavIconX will exist and be directly available. No need to instantiate anything. You can then alter the favicon by using one of the methods below. Each method isfrom nicolasbize.com
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