favcount.js

favcount.js

Enhance your useless favicon with FavCount™ technology.

Usage

Load up favcount.js in your HTML. 

<html>
  <head>
    <link rel='icon' type='image/png' href='path/to/favicon.ico'>
  </head>

  <body>
    ...
    <!-- bottom of body -->
    <script src='favcount.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
  </body>
</html>

Create and use a Favcount in your JavaScript. 

var favicon = new Favcount('path/to/favicon.ico');

favicon.set(10);

If you want to make that icon really pop, change it out to something else or adjust the opacity. 

favicon.icon = 'path/to/different/icon.ico';
favicon.opacity = 0.5;

favicon.set();

Example

Have a look at the favicon for this page. Notice how amazing it is? Here's the code. 

var favicon = new Favcount('icons/blue-dot.ico');

function setCount(count) {
  if (count > 99) { count = 1 };

  favicon.set(count);

  setTimeout(function() {
    setCount(count + 1);
  }, 500);
}

setCount(1);

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