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	Dynamic Favicons

Kore7

3-17-2006 4:49 PM

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favicon, favicons, dynamic, ajax, javascript, ui

Kore7 says:

What a cool idea. I could imagine having the Clipmark icon turn red whenever one of your clips was commented on, for instance.

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3-22-2006 9:09 PM

adamc

You're right, that would be totally cool. I'm going to check it out.

4-6-2008 4:05 PM

bignosemousie

Still a good idea! What happened Adam?

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