Mozilla file icon magic
Every now and then I find some piece of code in the Mozilla code base that makes me go WTF? Today, I found out about the moz-icon scheme. Try this URL in Firefox:
moz-icon://.js?size=128
Of course it's no secret, other than not being documented, but I found an interesting use via css. Sometimes I'm the last one to know about something.
I remember discovering that little gem awhile ago. But unfortunately, it only does 16x16 and 32x32 size icons (on Windows, at least). Which is *really* annoying.
Posted by: Blair McBride | July 04, 2008 at 05:31 PM
It only seems to work up to 64x64 on Linux (Ubuntu)
Posted by: RichB | July 05, 2008 at 12:12 AM
It goes up to 128 on OS X.
Considering both Windows and OS X have higher resolution icons than that, it might be nice if we could get to them.
Posted by: Alex | July 05, 2008 at 02:18 AM
I know Safari must have this feature too, but I've searched high and low and cannot find a mention of a css-property, or protocol handler for webkit to do this. I might even have to download the webkit source to find it
Posted by: Kroc Camen | July 06, 2008 at 03:46 AM
Does anyone know where can I find the complete extensions list? Also how to change the default icons would be useful.
Posted by: | July 14, 2008 at 11:42 AM