[boost] [website] Smaller favicon.ico file

Subject: [boost] [website] Smaller favicon.ico file
From: Jeremiah Willcock (jewillco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-10 11:35:13

Our current favicon.ico file (on www.boost.org) is very large (22k), and 
includes several icons that are too large for the standard 16x16 size for 
a favicon.  Looking at some directions for compressing them, I have 
created the attached icon which is only 318 bytes and looks almost as good 
as the current icon.  It might be worthwhile to consider replacing the 
current favicon with this file.  It is also available as 
https://svn.boost.org/htdocs/site/favicon.ico (the favicon for 
svn.boost.org, but your browser is unlikely to use the new icon if you've 
downloaded the old one); Dong Inn and I put that in last week as part of 
some other performance optimizations in Trac.  Purging old favicons from 
Firefox's cache is difficult, though, so you may just want to download it 
directly and view it in an image viewer.

-- Jeremiah Willcock