110294 - mozilla.org's "favicon" link icon png should have a transparent background

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org :: Miscellaneous, task)

Description

[justin hugh daly]

when using the classic theme with different system background colors, a white
square appears around the lizard's head with the icon in the location bar. this
is probably undesirable. the default page icon in teh location bar seems to have
the correct transparency.

this is with build 200111503 on winnt

Comment 1

[Joseph Elwell]

Transparency is no solution either. If you go that route then if someone picks a
theme that is black, the icon lines will blur into the rest of the UI and you'll
just see a red dot, with no definition.

I suggest marking this WONTFIX.

Comment 2

[Luke Morey]

Attachment: icon with transparency - doesn't dissapear

That's just not true.  Mozilla.org: settling for less since 1857.

Here's one that has transparency & doesn't disappear.

Comment 3

[Luke Morey]

Attachment: scaled version of GCC's icon

Where is Giovanni's stuff these days?  Used to be
http://www.crosswinds.net/~ggc/, I think.  Anyhow, those were the best icons,
by far.  I always thought they should be the official ones.  From The ol' bug
43647...

Anyhow, this isn't my work.  I've just scaled Giovanni's icon.	I'll see if I
can find a valid address for him & ask if we can use it.

Comment 4

[Luke Morey]

Attachment: scaled version of GCC's icon

Where is Giovanni's stuff these days?  Used to be
http://www.crosswinds.net/~ggc/, I think.  Anyhow, those were the best icons,
by far.  I always thought they should be the official ones.  From The ol' bug
43647...

Anyhow, this isn't my work.  I've just scaled Giovanni's icon.	I'll see if I
can find a valid address for him & ask if we can use it.

Comment 5

[Luke Morey]

cc -> [e-mail]

Giovanni, are you still at this address?  I'd love to see your icon used as 
the "favicon" mozilla.org.

Comment 6

[Luke Morey]

By the way, this isn't only visible using Classic & unusual system colours

You will always see it in modern (if your eyes are sharp enough).  Whatever 
your system colours are.  Because the URLbar doesn't have a plain white 
background.

Comment 7

[Michael Nahrath]

So you preferred to open a new bug instead of reopening bug 109144. Mauybe this is the better way to do.

So I rather repeat my posting here:

Pure transparency will result in bad contrast on different backgrounds.

Have a look at <http://www.subotnik.net/tmp/icons/mozilla.html>! It places thre
icons on different background colours (this is important at least for skinnability).

The first icon ist todays <http://mozilla.org/images/mozilla-16.png> with white
background.
The second is attachement 57678.
The third has a transparent background but I added a half-transparent shining
around the image. 

Remember: The cool stuff about PNG is alpha transparency. Let's use it!

Comment 8

[Giovanni Cavallanti]

Here I am :-)
The old page at crosswinds.net is gone but I've just put up a new page at 
http://digilander.iol.it/mozillaart .
There you can find three new icons as well as the old ones.

Comment 9

[Luke Morey]

Hey - it's transparent now.  When did that happen?

Justin / Mitchell - I guess you can resolve it as FIXED.

(But I still like GCC's icons.)

Comment 10

[Jacek Piskozub]

Marking FIXED per Mike's comment and own observations.