Pie charts in your favicon

Last time I checked (~3 months ago) canvas rendered favicons lead to HUGE memory leaks in Chrome.<p>I love this effect, but I had to remove it from my app. If you were only using it on a page that is navigated away from, then this will work great, most likely.

Can you put a link to the actual github page on this page (for the lazy).<p><a href="https://github.com/lipka/piecon" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/lipka/piecon</a>

I still like defender more. <a href="http://www.p01.org/releases/DEFENDER_of_the_favicon/" rel="nofollow">http://www.p01.org/releases/DEFENDER_of_the_favicon/</a>

Now this is the kind of library I like. Not something difficult, or complicated. Just a small, fun library that does one thing and does it well.

I feel like this would be rather annoying and distracting. I could just imagine my 10+ tabs in Firefox having a pie chart or something blinking instead of a plain image.<p>It feels like were devolving to the old websites of flashy and blinking images trying to lure people in. Don't get me wrong though, it is neat! But... Where is that disable favicon extension now?

OMG. This literally will solve a UI issue that chizzl.com (my lil start-up that could) has been trying to solve for 2 months. Bless this lib and bless Ycomb!

This looks just like the one used in the new Flickr Upload page <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/upload/" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photos/upload/</a>. Are they related?

It's not a pie chart but just a progress indicator? An actual pie chart could have an arbitrary amount of slices in arbitrary angles.<p>This might be useful for slow file uploads, but eventually animated favicons will be abused and subsequently disabled in later browser versions. See "window.status".

This is cool. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me in Safari 6.0 on OS X 10.8. The title updates but the favicon stays as the default GitHub icon: <a href="http://imgur.com/kIzXX" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/kIzXX</a>

Memory leaks aside in Chrome, this is amazing and I can't wait to see how people use this.

It would be useful to tie this in with something like YouTube, where the pie graph represents how much of the video has been buffered.<p>Similarly for a page that auto-refreshes, it could indicate that interval.

Neat. Reminds me of the favicon tetris.<p>This could be very useful for an in-tab "progress bar".

Talking about bleeding edge; look at those browser requirements!

love it! great way to show progress while I keep working on another tab while waiting.

No favicon change in Opera 12.

I think I read that Firefox might be ditching the favicon in the location bar for some reason?