Tinycon
A small library for manipulating the favicon, in particular adding alert bubbles and changing images. Tinycon gracefully falls back to a number in title approach for browsers that don't support canvas or dynamic favicons.
See the Live Demo here.
Documentation
Tinycon adds a single object to the global namespace and does not require initialization.
Installation
Install with your favorite package manager.
npm install tinycon --save
yarn add tinycon
Basic Usage
Tinycon.setBubble(6);
Options
Tinycon can take a range of options to customize the look
- width: the width of the alert bubble
- height: the height of the alert bubble
- font: a css string to use for the fontface (recommended to leave this)
- color: the foreground font color
- background: the alert bubble background color
- fallback: should we fallback to a number in brackets for browsers that don't support canvas/dynamic favicons? Boolean, or use the string 'force' to ensure a title update even in supported browsers.
- abbreviate: should tinycon shrink large numbers such as 1000 to an abbreviated version (1k). Boolean, defaults to true
Tinycon.setOptions({
width: 7,
height: 9,
font: '10px arial',
color: '#ffffff',
background: '#549A2F',
fallback: true
});
AMD support
Tinycon can also be used as an asynchronous module.
require([
'tinycon.js'
], function (T) {
T.setOptions({
width: 7,
height: 9,
font: '10px arial',
color: '#ffffff',
background: '#549A2F',
fallback: true
});
T.setBubble(7);
});
Browser Support
Tinycon has been tested to work completely in the following browsers. Older versions may be supported, but haven't been tested:
- Chrome 15+
- Firefox 9+
- Opera 11+
Currently the library degrades to title update in the following browsers:
- Internet Explorer 9
- Safari 5
Development
To produce the minified file run grunt uglify
License / Credits
Tinycon is released under the MIT license. It is simple and easy to understand and places almost no restrictions on what you can do with Tinycon.
More Information
Tinycon was inspired by Notificon
Download
Releases are available for download from
GitHub.