Dynamic Favicons
Michael Mahemoff have a very interesting approach to Dynamic Favicons, I find it very useful for Web 2.0 applications for example to notify that you have a new email, something have changed in the page that you are working on... The only problem still remaining is that dynamic favicons will be visible only for the active tab, what if the window was minimized and the favicon changed ? It would be interesting to have more control on the browser, so the favicon could be used as indicator in the browser, not only in the loaded pages.
Favicons should ideally be easy to manipulate, as easy as manipulating the web page's UI. (Favicons are the little website icons you see in the address bar, browser tabs, etc.) For example, a chat app like Meebo could signal that your buddy's trying to contact you, a mail app like GMail could indicate You Have Mail!
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