Making a Gif-fed Favicon

Making a Gif-fed Favicon 🌔 October 19 2014

This began as a fun, hacky gimmick. Now I’m wondering what’s possible in such a constrained medium. Narratives? 3 dimensionality?

I’d love to see what you come up with. Here’s the code:

var icoCounter = 2;
var ico = $('#favicon');  
var crazyFavicon = setInterval(function(){
        if ( icoCounter < 7 ) {
        icoCounter = icoCounter + 1;
        } else {
        icoCounter = 1;
        }

        //iterate through frames
        ico.attr('href', '/img/favicon' + icoCounter + '.png');

    }, 50);

This was partially inspired by A Boy and His Atom, the smallest film ever made.