{"id":287,"date":"2010-07-30T07:49:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T07:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2010\/07\/30\/confusing_icons\/"},"modified":"2011-03-02T20:14:12","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T20:14:12","slug":"confusing_icons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2010\/07\/30\/confusing_icons\/","title":{"rendered":"Confusing icons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the good old days of Windows 3.1 I used to just have one or two web pages open at a time &#8211; sometimes more if I was feeling daring. Now I seem to have about 20 tabs in my main web browser, and half a dozen more in various other web browsers.  Hence the favicons that appear on the browser tabs are an invaluable guide when I am trying to find a web page I know I have open. The titles of the pages just don&#8217;t help when there are so many pages as each tab has only a small bit of real estate in which to display.<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"browsertabs.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/franknorman\/browsertabs.JPG\" width=\"508\" height=\"24\" class=\"mt-image-none\" \/><\/span><br \/>\nMore and more websites use these little icons now, and of course it gets harder for web managers to create a distinct icon for their site.  Designing in 16 x 16 pixels is quite a challenge. Hence I keep getting different icons mixed up. I regularly get confused between Google and the Guardian:<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"favicon-google.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/franknorman\/favicon-google.jpg\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"mt-image-none\" \/><\/span>  <span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/franknorman\/favicon-guardian.jpg\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"mt-image-none\" \/><\/span><br \/>\nMy worst confusion is between Mendeley and Nature Network, with Seesmic more distinctive but bearing a vague similarity.<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"favicon-mendeley.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/franknorman\/favicon-mendeley.jpg\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"mt-image-none\" \/><\/span>  <span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"favicon-NN.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/franknorman\/favicon-NN.jpg\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"mt-image-none\" \/><\/span>  <span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"favicon-seesmic.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/franknorman\/favicon-seesmic.jpg\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"mt-image-none\" \/><\/span><br \/>\nWhat are your favourite look-alike favicons?  Or is it only me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the good old days of Windows 3.1 I used to just have one or two web pages open at a time &#8211; sometimes more if I was feeling daring. Now I seem to have about 20 tabs in my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2010\/07\/30\/confusing_icons\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-froth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}