Yes. Animated favicons are on the rise. From Niall Kennedy to the latest Wikio, many use animated gifs as favicons instead of treditional .ico bitmaps. Since IE will never display favicons (even .ico files) anymore, why dont we exploit the new Firefox support for animated gifs as favicons?

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="icon" href="/animated_favicon.gif" type="image/x-icon" />


In FF, this gives more attention to the particular site tab, addressbar and in bookmarks. Suddenly you are more visible to the world

Update: Use FavIcon Generator from HTML-KIt to generate favicons from your own images. Yes. even scrolling text icons
There is a nice video tutorialon how to create your favicons and then upload to blogger

BBC’s complaints about websites forced me to check webforth for markup errors. I fixed a couple of things. I explored more and checked some cool websites (Including BBC.co.uk) for markup as well as css validation. Read the results below to see whats going on.

It was interesting to see that webstandards.org fails in CSS validation and Microsoft.com has amazingly perfect HTML homepage. Cool!

It appears that it is extremely difficult to keep both markup and css valid. The sites with user generated content (Del.icio.us for example) and sites showing external markup (Like the ads in techcrunch.com) are more vulnerable to this.

W3c is yelling for standards and nobody seems to listen. Yes. This experiment will not be good for me in the long run. But they are just observations. Take that eye from me.