Deploy without ImageMagick?

[jberkus]

@tigert, @garrett

I was building an atomicapp for doing deploys. However, the deploy builds a couple icons, and requires ImageMagick, which in Fedora pulls in all of X11. Is there a way around this?

[garrett]

Well, I think ImageMagick is mainly used for the .ico file. We could disable the favicon building and include a pre-built one instead.

I'm not sure if it is used for determining image sizes. I guess it's easy enough to check.

[garrett]

Just for reference, favicons are a de-facto standard originally made by Microsoft — but most other browser vendors thought it'd be a good idea to let websites have icons and adopted the idea and basic implementation. Favicons are supported in .ico format for all browsers, but most also accept PNGs now. However, PNGs only support one size and .ico files support multiple.

More info @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon

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It would only be necessary to update the favicon when the logo changes for whatever reason. As I don't see that happening any time soon, it should be fine to just have use precompiled version.

Even still, it's easy enough to edit the .ico in The Gimp or a favicon generator website if the time ever arises.

[garrett]

More browser-specific info @ http://caniuse.com/#search=favicon — because of Safari, Opera Mini, and older IE (<11), .ico files are still needed. We can't just use PNGs.

Also: Sadly, only Firefox properly supports .svg favicons. (They should be optimized for 16×16 if that were the case.)