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26th October 2017 - Link Blog

Dynamically changing favicons with JavaScript. I just spotted GitHub using this trick to swap out the favicon on a pull request that hadn’t passed its tests yet for github.com/favicon-failure.ico with a little cross icon in the corner.

Posted 26th October 2017 at 7:56 pm

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