Friday, February 07, 2003

small iconic brainstorm So I'm browsing in NetNewsWire (my news aggregator of choice) and I come across a post by Will Richardson from his Weblogg-ed site and I find myself trying to remember what Will looks like. Where did I see his face? Then I've got it...over at Sebastian Fiedler's place. Sebastian has a very nice setup where a small b/w icon of the author's face accompanies each post. So then I start wondering (because I'm not a coder I don't have any limits to my imagination!) about the little icons that accompany URLs for some sites in some browsers (I recently started using Apple's Safari browser, which displays these little icons instead of the default @ sign that shows up in IE for Mac). So how hard would it be to have a news aggregator access this small icon file and include it (intelligently) with the news feeds? I don't even know what that little icon is called, but I imagine it may be specific to the http protocol and difficult to reproduce in RSS. I guess that's a question for the folks at UserLand and Ranchero Software. 7:12:24 PM    comment []