258189 - Use new icons for Yahoo and eBay search

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

repro:
go to url and compare to the one used by yahoo to the current icon in searchbar.

exp:
same icon
newbies on the web won't recognise the icon used by "us".


I'll attach 2 16x16px icons (both 89bytes large), one with white and one with
tranparent background.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Attachment: yahoo icon transp. bgd

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Attachment: yahoo icon white bgd

Comment 3

[Pierre Chanial]

Sounds really good to me. That's a net gain of 198 bytes. And surely the other
search engine icons may be shrink as well.
Bart: is there a trademark/marketing related issue with using one of these new
icons?

Comment 4

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Attachment: google icon transp background

google transp bgd, 97 bytes

Comment 5

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Attachment: google icon white background

google icon transp bgd, 97 bytes

Comment 6

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Attachment: ebay icon whith background

down to 181 bytes

the others are png's and i can't optimise those

Comment 7

[Pierre Chanial]

Peter: that's cool to help reducing the size of these icons. However, there
should be a compromize because the quality of new google and eBay has a lot
decreased (not I like the current eBay icon, in which the 'y' is a blurred top
right point)
Let's wait for Bart's inputs because I am not sure we can ship trademarked icon
unless we have the permission.

Comment 8

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

All of them were poor quality with lots of blur.
I tried to sharpen them, yes, even eBaY.
At the end of the day you guys decide, take them leave them, whatever ;-)

btw Yahoo is the only icon the original shapes/colors.

Comment 9

[bart decrem, not checking bugmail]

Thanks for asking.

YES.  In fact a Yahoo person just contacted me about this issue yesterday.  

Let's get someone from Yahoo to help out with this.

Comment 10

[Rafael Ebron (:rebron)]

Attachment: yahoo.gif from Yahoo

Can you check this in instead.

Comment 11

[Rafael Ebron (:rebron)]

*** Bug 259134 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Rafael, where did you get that icon , no searchpage of Yahoo is using that ?

Comment 13

[Rafael Ebron (:rebron)]

I got it from the designers at Yahoo.  I guess it's their new logo?  Anyhow,
it's what we need to use.

Comment 14

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

ok, thanks for the information

Comment 15

[Michael Favia]

Attachment: Proportional Ebay Icon

Here is a proportional ebay icon. The existing one is mangled and stretched. It
is a trans gif are pngs allowed? The transparency would look much more refined.

Comment 16

[Michael Favia]

Attachment: Proportional ebay icon not cropped

The original icon i submitted was cropped a bit to enlarge the ebay logo for
better visibility this one includes the logo in its entirety. Please include if
you like it.

Comment 17

[Michael Favia]

Attachment: New Dictionary.com Icon

I dont know where the previous one came from. If it is official or preferred
please ignore this attachment. I simply extracted the official logo from the
website cropped the Dictionary.com text off and resized the glyph a little.
Thought we should use the same logo as the site if we can. Again Gif.

Comment 18

[Doug Wright]

The dictionary.com icon Fx currently uses is the dictionary.com favicon. It's
also much more recognisible!

Comment 19

[Doug Wright]

Attachment: Ebay favicon (.ico->optimised gif)

Here's my attempt at the ebay icon. I used the ebay favicon as a source.
149bytes

Comment 20

[Rafael Ebron (:rebron)]

Attachment: eBay from eBay, Inc.

pch, 

Can you use this image?  Official one from eBay designer.  If it needs to get
fixed, I'd like to have them do it.

-Rafael

Comment 21

[Rafael Ebron (:rebron)]

Attachment: safe image from Yahoo designer

From our design contact at Yahoo.  pch can you use this image instead?	The
purple Yahoo logo (while provided by Yahoo), isn't what they want to use just
yet.